Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth

Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth by Burchfield, Joe D.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780226080437.

Burchfield charts the enormous impact made by Lord Kelvins application of thermodynamic laws to the question of the earths age and the heated debate his ideas sparked among British Victorian physicists, astronomers, geologists, and biologists. "Anyone interested in geologic time, and that should include all geologists and a fair smattering of biologists, physicists and chemists, should make Burchfields commendable and time-tested volume part of their personal library"—Brent Darymple, Quartely Review of Biology