Géologie, théologie et inquiétudes eschatologiques : William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) et les débats suscités par la thermodynamique à l’époque victorienne

William Thomson (1824-1907), an eminent physicist who contributed to the formulation of the second law of thermodynamics, was also at the origin of a largely forgotten controversy concerning the ages of the Sun and the Earth. He used the laws of thermodynamics to calculate the age of our planet and...

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Main Author: Jean-Michel Yvard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2010-06-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/2860
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