A history of modern planetary physics
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Author
Publication
Cambridge University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
81,500 words, Guess
Page Count
326 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL795799M
- ISBN-100521441714
- OCLC Control Number32854824
- OCLC Control Number32854816
- OCLC Control Number32854812
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number32853889
- OCLC Control Numberhistoryofmodernp0000brus
- Library of Congress Control Number95031662
- Goodreads1873642
Classifications
- DDC523.2/09
- LCCQB601 .B89 1996
Description
The age of the Earth has been one of the most disputed numbers in science since the 17th century. Although most earth scientist and astronomers accept the Earth's age to be 4.55 billion years, much significance lies in the manner in which that figure was determined. Transmuted Past follows the development of theories of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis in the 20th century and describes radiometric methods for estimating the age of the Earth. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the reputation of the planetary sciences changed significantly; whereas the planetary sciences once played an integral role in science, they eventually came to be accorded a status inferior to atomic physics and cosmology. Professor Brush explores this shift and shows how a planetary science such as geology can provide a useful example of the scientific approach for comparison with a humanistic discipline such as history.
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