Burchfield charts the enormous impact made by Lord Kelvin's application of thermodynamic laws to the question of the earth's age and the heated debate his ideas sparked among British Victorian physicists, astronomers, geologists, and biologists.
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Burchfield charts the enormous impact made by Lord Kelvin's application of thermodynamic laws to the question of the earth's age and the heated debate his ideas sparked among British Victorian physicists, astronomers, geologists, and biologists.
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Add this copy of Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth to cart. $9.29, good condition, Sold by Bookmarc's rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from La Porte, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Science History Publications.
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Good in Good jacket. CN6-An ex-library hardcover book in good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has labels, wrinkling and rubbing on some edges, sides, and corners, inside flaps adhered to the fixed endpapers, discoloration and shelf wear. Book haslibrary markings (labels, stamping, cardholder, etc. ), bumped corners, light edgewear, some scuffing on the top page edges, scattered light stains and smudge, some pencil markgs, light discoloration and shelf wear. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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Like New. Size: 6x1x9; Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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Good+ 260pp; Surface tear to front cover, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Study in the history of science regarding Lord Kelvin in relation to the process of determining the age of the earth in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
