The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth

Name: The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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hardcover – October 23, 2000

by Lewis, Cherry

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ISBN-13: 9780521790512 ISBN-10: 0521790514

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Cambridge University Press

Binding

hardcover

Published

October 23, 2000

Weight

2.3 lbs

Dimensions

22.90×2.50×14.60 cm

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The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth by Lewis, Cherry. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780521790512.

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 mans 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.