The Abyss of Time, Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity After the Sixteenth CenturyFreeman, Cooper, 1980 - 251페이지 |
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... figures are not cumulative : according to Buffon the earth was 75,000 years old in the 18th century A.D. Interpolating between the above figures , he estimated that the oceans formed and life ap- peared when the earth was about 35,000 ...
... figures are not cumulative : according to Buffon the earth was 75,000 years old in the 18th century A.D. Interpolating between the above figures , he estimated that the oceans formed and life ap- peared when the earth was about 35,000 ...
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... figures to be as probable as his mini- mal , and his " mean estimates " more probable than either . Given such a wide choice , everybody could find a figure to his liking . Tait could have his 10 million as a minimal age of the earth ...
... figures to be as probable as his mini- mal , and his " mean estimates " more probable than either . Given such a wide choice , everybody could find a figure to his liking . Tait could have his 10 million as a minimal age of the earth ...
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... figures for the maximum thickness of Cambrian and younger strata in North America and came up with a total of 259,000 feet - about the equivalent of the familiar 50 miles . Combin- ing the maximum figures for the several systems as ...
... figures for the maximum thickness of Cambrian and younger strata in North America and came up with a total of 259,000 feet - about the equivalent of the familiar 50 miles . Combin- ing the maximum figures for the several systems as ...
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