The Chronologers' Quest: The Search for the Age of the Earth

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List of illustrations List of tables Preface Acknowldegements 1. The ancients: early chronologies 2. Biblical calculations 3. Models of Aristolean infinity and Sacred theories of the Earth 4. Falling stones, salty oceans, and evaporating waters: early empirical measurements of the age of the Earth 5. Thinking in layers: early ideas in stratigraphy 6. An infinite and cyclical Earth and religious orthodoxy 7. The cooling Earth 8. Stratigraphic laws, uniformitarianism and the development of the geological column 9. 'Formed stones' and their subsequent role in biostratigraphy and evolutionary theory 10. The hour-glass of accumulated or denuded sediments 11. Thermodynamics and the cooling Earth revisited 12. Oceanic salination reconsidered 13. Radioactivity: invisible geochronometers 14. The universal problem and duck soup Sources Index.

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