A natural history of time:
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 471 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0226712877 9780226712871 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
ix
ι
Time without a Beginning?
1
2
On the Great Book of Moses
24
3
Genesis as Viewed through the Prism of Natural
Philosophy
54
4
Nature s Admirable Medals
85
5
The March of the Comets
114
6
Heroic Age, Relative Time
143
7
The Long History of Two Barons
176
8
The Elasticity of Time
206
9
The Pandora s Box of Physics
237
io
The Sun, the Earth, Radioactivity
—
and Kelvin s Death
264
n
The Long Quest of Arthur Holmes
288
12
From the Atomic Bomb to the Age of the Earth
320
Epilogue
350
Appendix: Mathematical Complements
355
Source Notes
357
Suggestions for Further Reading and
Reference
373
Bibliography
409
Index
455
The quest to pinpoint the age of the earth is nearly as old
as humanity itself. For most of history, people trusted
mythology or religion to provide the answer, even though
nature abounds with clues to the past of the earth and
the stars. In A Natural History of Time, geophysicist Pascal
Richet tells the fascinating story of how scientists and
philosophers examined those clues and from them built a
chronological scale that has made it possible to recon¬
struct the history of nature itself.
Richet begins his story with mythological traditions,
which were heavily influenced by the seasons and almost
uniformly viewed time cyclically. The linear history pro¬
mulgated by Judaism, with its story of creation, was an
exception, and it was that tradition that drove early Chris¬
tian attempts to date the earth. For instance, in
169
CE,
the bishop of Antioch declared that the world had been in
existence for
5,698
years and the odd months and days.
Until the mid-eighteenth century, natural timescales de¬
rived from biblical chronologies prevailed, but, as Richet
demonstrates, with the Scientific Revolution geological
and astronomical evidence for much longer timescales
began to accumulate. Fossils and the developing science
of geology provided compelling evidence for periods of
millions and millions of years—a scale that even scien¬
tists had difficulty grasping. By the end of the twentieth
century, new toots such as
radiometrie
dating had dem¬
onstrated that the solar system is four and a half billion
years old, and the universe itself about twice that, though
controversial questions remain.
The quest for time is a story of ingenuity and determina¬
tion, and like a geologist, Pascal Richet carefully peels
back the strata of that history, giving us a chance to mar¬
vel at each layer and truly appreciate how far our knowl¬
edge—and our planet—have come.
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