Isbn: 9780521790512 - the dating game: one man's search for the age of the earth (21 resultados)

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Hardback. Condición: Good. How old is the Earth? At the end of the nineteenth century, geologists, biologists, physicists and astronomers 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 that would finally lead to an accurate date for the Age of the Earth. Despite scientific opposition, financial hardship and personal tragedy, Arthur Holmes, greatest geologist of the twentieth century, fought for fifty years to convince the establishment of an Earth of great antiquity: a fight which eventually transformed the moribund 'art' of geology into a dynamic science. Cherry Lewis' engaging writing brings Holmes back to life and skilfully weaves his adventures, loves and losses, around the early history and science of dating the Earth, and the discovery of radioactivity - the clock that tells geological time.…

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. How old is the Earth? At the end of the nineteenth century, geologists, biologists, physicists and astronomers 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 that would finally lead to an accurate date for the Age of the Earth. Despite scientific opposition, financial hardship and personal tragedy, Arthur Holmes, greatest geologist of the twentieth century, fought for fifty years to convince the establishment of an Earth of great antiquity: a fight which eventually transformed the moribund 'art' of geology into a dynamic science. Cherry Lewis' engaging writing brings Holmes back to life and skilfully weaves his adventures, loves and losses, around the early history and science of dating the Earth, and the discovery of radioactivity - the clock that tells geological time. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

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Condición: Very good. x, 253, text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w. Owner's name to endpaper. Life and work of the geologist Arthur Holmes (1890-1964). [9780521790512].

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IX, 258 pages. With illustrations. Illustrated original softcover binding. 21x14 cm * How old is the Earth? At the end of the nineteenth century, geologists, biologists, physicists and astronomers 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 that would finally lead to an accurate date for the Age of the Earth. Despite scientific opposition, financial hardship and personal tragedy, Arthur Holmes, greatest geologist of the twentieth century, fought for fifty years to convince the establishment of an Earth of great antiquity: a fight which eventually transformed the moribund 'art' of geology into a dynamic science. Cherry Lewis' engaging writing brings Holmes back to life and skilfully weaves his adventures, loves and losses, around the early history and science of dating the Earth, and the discovery of radioactivity - the clock that tells geological time. ----- Arthur Holmes (* 14. Januar 1890 in Gateshead; 20. September 1965 in London) war ein britischer Geologe. Als einer der ersten Geowissenschaftler schlug Holmes vor, die Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts entdeckte Radioaktivität als Hilfsmittel zur Geochronologie der zeitlichen Einordnung geologischer Epochen anzuwenden. Seine 1911 mit einfachsten Mitteln durchgeführten Messungen (etwa 600 Millionen Jahre für den Beginn des Kambrium) liegen relativ nahe am heute gültigen Wert von 541 Millionen Jahren. Aufsehen erregte auch sein Buch The Age of the Earth (1913), in dem er archäischen Gneisen das damals noch unvorstellbare Alter von 1,5 Mrd. Jahren zuschrieb. Etwa 1930 schlug er einen Mechanismus zur Erklärung der von Alfred Wegener entwickelten Theorie der Kontinentaldrift vor: Konvektive Wärmeströme im Erdinneren erzeugen genügend Kraft, um die Erdplatten zu bewegen. Da Holmes keine experimentellen Methoden zur Überprüfung dieser Hypothese zur Verfügung standen, nannte er seinen Vorschlag Spekulation; er kann zu den Pulsationshypothesen der Geophysik gerechnet werden. Heute gilt seine Annahme als sehr ähnlich mit jenen Prozessen, mit denen die moderne Theorie der Plattentektonik arbeitet. Der Lehrbuchautor László Egyed ordnet Holmes' Konvektionsmodell hingegen eher den Expansionstheorien der Erde zu: Das unter dem Urkontinent Pangäa aufströmende Magma habe diesen zerrissen und beim Abströmen die Gebirgswurzeln ausgestaltet; nach Aufhören der Strömungen hätten sich die alpidischen Gebirge beiderseits des Pazifik gehoben. Holmes war bis zu seinem Tod im Jahr 1965 Professor für Geologie an den Universitäten Durham und Edinburgh. Sein Lehrbuch Principles of Physical Geology gilt auch heute noch als Standardwerk. 1934 wurde er in die American Academy of Arts and Sciences gewählt. 1956 erhielt er die Penrose-Medaille der Geological Society of America und die Wollaston-Medaille der Geological Society of London (Quelle Wikipedia) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 700. …

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