The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth (Canto Classics)

Lewis, Cherry

ISBN 10: 1107659590 / ISBN 13: 9781107659599

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2012

About this Item

Seller Inventory # BSM.1463A

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth (Canto Classics)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107659590
• ISBN 13: 9781107659599
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

About this title

Synopsis

In this book, Cherry Lewis skilfully blends the history of gauging the age of the earth with a biography of Arthur Holmes, a British geologist who was a pioneer of geochronology. When it was deeply unfashionable to do so in the early twentieth century, he spent many years trying to prove the great antiquity of the earth, stating that it was 'perhaps a little indelicate to ask of our Mother Earth her age, but Science acknowledges no shame'. Both fascinating and touching, this book appeals to a broad readership of both geologists and science enthusiasts.

Book Description

In this book, Cherry Lewis skilfully blends the history of gauging the age of the Earth with a biography of Arthur Holmes, a British geologist who was a pioneer of geochronology. Both fascinating and touching, this book appeals to a broad readership of both geologists and science enthusiasts.