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Accessible, entertaining work addresses Earth's age as it explores the work of Hooke, Buffon, Lyell, Cuvier, Darwin, Agassiz, and others, detailing discoveries that led to knowledge of Earth's astonishing antiquity — from Steno's contemplation of fossilized shark's teeth in 1666 through Holmes' time scales of 1960. Nominated for the American Book Award. 29 black-and-white illustrations.
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This is a reprint of a 1980 work, which is cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed. Conceptions of the earth's age changed in the 17th century from reckonings in the thousands of years to millions and thousands of millions thereafter. Albritton (a 1988 recipient of the Rip Rapp Award for archaeological geology) turns the conceptual history of l
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