A natural history of time / Pascal Richet ; translated by John Venerella.
| Author/creator |
Richet, Pascal |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. |
| Description | xiv, 471 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subject(s) |
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| Uniform title | Âge du monde. English |
| Contents | Time without a beginning? -- On the great book of Moses -- Genesis as viewed through the prism of natural philosophy -- Nature's admirable medals -- The march of the comets -- Heroic age, relative time -- The long history of two barons -- The elasticity of time -- The Pandora's box of physics -- The Sun, the Earth, radioactivity--and Kelvin's death -- The long quest of Arthur Holmes -- From the atomic bomb to the age of the Earth. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-453) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006033992 |
| ISBN | 9780226712871 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0226712877 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | QE508 .R5413 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |