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Buffon, Fourier and Kelvin on the age of the Earth

Authors:
G. N. Popov
Date submitted:
1987-07-08
Date accepted:
1987-09-05
Date published:
1988-09-29

Abstract

The imagination of the ancients gives you an abundance of definitions of the age of your world. For example, the Bible gives the Earth no more than 6 thousand years, and for the ancient Indian mythology and 4 billion years is not a term, it is one day of life of Brahma.

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