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Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth Hardcover In our ambition to addressBurchfield, Joe D. Between 1860 and 1930 the accepted estimate of the age of the earth evolved from the virtually unlimited expanse of time demanded by Charles Lyell and the mid century uniformitarian geologists, through a series of ever more restrictive limits imposed by late nineteenth century physics and geology, to the vast but quantitatively definable chronologies revealed by radioactive dating. During this period, the question of the earth's age