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

Canto Classics

By: Cherry Lewis

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Paperback | 29 March 2012

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In this book, Cherry Lewis skilfully blends the history of gauging the age of the Earth with a biography of Arthur Holmes, a British geologist who was a pioneer of geochronology. When it was deeply unfashionable to do so in the early twentieth century, he spent many years trying to prove the great antiquity of the Earth, stating that it was ''perhaps a little indelicate to ask of our Mother Earth her age, but science acknowledges no shame''. Both fascinating and touching, this book appeals to a broad readership of both geologists and science enthusiasts.

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'... a gripping tale to tell ... I would recommend it ... to anyone who has the slightest interest in how our planet came to be the way it is.' John Gribbin, The Sunday Times

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Prelude to the game
A brief history of time
Darwin's sorest trouble
Mysterious rays
Doomsday postponed
Holidays in Mozambique
This vegetable prison
A brimful of promise
Liquid gold in Yenangyaung
Durham days
The Ardnamurchan affair
Rewards and retributions
Why does the sun shine?
The age of uranium
The age of the Earth
Loose ends
Thanks and acknowledgements
Selected bibliography
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The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth

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