Titlebook: Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth; Joe D. Burchfield Textbook 1975Latest edition Science History Publications 1975 age.astronomy.earth.

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Conclusion,heses had to be reassessed and sometimes discounted in the light of the discoveries of the twentieth century, the institutions, individuals, and hypotheses which put them to the test frequently had their roots in an intellectual environment which Kelvin had helped to shape.

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Introduction,llowly eloquent bishop whose scientific expertise had long since ended with an undergraduate first in mathematics. This time his opponent was William Thomson (1824–1907), a scientist of international reputation who, at age forty-four, was at the height of his powers. And this time the outcome was to be quite different.

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Kelvin and the Physics of Time,red gentlemen, and scientists from other branches of science were all attracted to its problems. They filled the geological societies and made important contributions to the literature of the maturing science. Kelvin was such an amateur.

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Introduction,eleaguered scientific theory. His task was to defend uniformitarian geology against the charge “that a great mistake has been made—that British popular geology at the present time is in direct opposition to the principles of Natural Philosophy.”1 This time, however, Huxley’s opponent was not the sha

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Kelvin and the Physics of Time,enth century as a fully independent branch of science, the appearance of a growing cadre of professional geologists stimulated rather than inhibited the activity of a still larger band of amateurs. In England especially, geology was the popular science .. Clergymen, professional men, scholars, leisu

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,Kelvin’s Influence: The Initial Reception,been “startled by a bold irruption into their camp from the side of physics.”. He referred, of course, to the publication of Kelvin’s papers on the age of the earth. But time had telescoped events in his memory, and his recollections were somewhat distorted. By 1899 Kelvin’s influence had produced a

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Opposition and Controversy,respected former prime minister, the Marquis of Salisbury, and the responses were to be made by the newly elevated Lord Kelvin, England’s most eminent living physicist, and by Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin’s aging bulldog. The meeting was to be held at Oxford for the first time since the legendary occ