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• 1.万物简史 第99期:敲石头的人们(24)
• He had really only one flaw and that was an inability to calculate the correct age of the Earth. The question occupied much of the second half of his ...
• 2.万物简史 第98期:敲石头的人们(23)
• In the course of a long career (he lived till 1907 and the age of eighty-three), he wrote 661 papers, accumulated 69 patents (from which he grew abund...
• 3.万物简史 第97期:敲石头的人们(22)
• Unfortunately for Darwin, and for progress, the question came to the attention of the great Lord Kelvin (who, though indubitably great, was then still...
• 4.万物简史 第96期:敲石头的人们(21)
• By the middle of the nineteenth century most learned people thought the Earth was at least a few million years old, perhaps even some tens of millions...
• 5.万物简史 第95期:敲石头的人们(20)
• One of the better early attempts at dating the planet came from the ever-reliable Edmond Halley, who in 1715 suggested that if you divided the total a...
• 6.万物简史 第94期:敲石头的人们(19)
• Although there was no reliable way of dating periods, there was no shortage of people willing to try. The most well known early attempt was in 1650 wh...
• 7.万物简史 第93期:敲石头的人们(18)
• Moreover, all this applies only to units of time . Rocks are divided into quite separate units known as systems, series, and stages. A distinction is ...
• 8.万物简史 第92期:敲石头的人们(17)
• Then come Lyell's epochsthe Pleistocene, Miocene, and so onwhich apply only to the most recent (but paleontologically busy) sixty-five million years, ...
• 9.万物简史 第91期:敲石头的人们(16)
• Lyell, in his Principles, introduced additional units known as epochs or series to cover the period since the age of the dinosaurs, among them Pleisto...
• 10.万物简史 第90期:敲石头的人们(15)
• Because the British were the most active in the early years, British names are predominant in the geological lexicon. Devonian is of course from the E...