Ebook: The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth
Author: Cherry Lewis
- Year: 2000
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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How old is the Earth? At the end of the nineteenth century, scientists were all looking for a clock that would provide an answer to this, the greatest Time question of all. The Dating Game tells the story of one man's vision of developing a geological timescale, a great vision which lasted fifty years despite scientific opposition, financial hardship and personal tragedy. Arthur Holmes fought to convince The Establishment of an Earth of great antiquity: a fight which eventually transformed the moribund 'art' of geology into a dynamic science.
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