A History of Modern Planetary Physics: Volume 2, The Age of the Earth and the Evolution of the Elements from Lyell to Patterson: Transmuted Past
Book Details
Author(s)
Stephen G. Brush
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0521101468
ISBN-13
9780521101462
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Description
Transmuted Past follows the development of theories of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis in the twentieth century and describes radiometric methods for estimating the age of the Earth. Professor Brush also offers perspectives on the changing reputation of planetary science relative to the "pure" sciences, such as physics, and a comparison of history and geology as ways of studying the past.
