A History of Modern Planetary Physics: Volume 2, the Age of the Earth and the Evolution of the Elements from Lyell to Patterson: Transmuted Past by Stephen G. Brush

A History of Modern Planetary Physics: Volume 2, the Age of the Earth and the Evolution of the Elements from Lyell to Patterson: Transmuted Past

Stephen G. Brush

148 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

informative medium-paced

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Transmuted Past follows the development of theories of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis in the twentieth century and describes radiometric methods for estimating the age of the Earth. Professor Brush also offers perspectives on the changing r...

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