# The age of the Earth

Author: Holmes, Arthur, 1890-1965

Genre: Earth (Planet) -- Age

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78241

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+age+of+the+Earth+Holmes&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Primitive races and their creation myths—The chronologies of Eastern sages—The demands of geology opposed by theological prejudice—Bishop Ussher’s date of the creation of the world—The Deluge and the Doctrine of Catastrophism—Ludicrous conceptions of fossils—The rise and eventual success of Uniformitarianism—Leonardo da Vinci—Steno—Generelli—Desmarest—Hutton—Scrope—Lyell—Ussher’s chronology rejected—Geological time no longer limited—The hour-glass of denudation and deposition—Darwin’s excessive drafts on time—The conservation of energy—Geology limited once again—Thomson on the age of the earth and sun, 1862—The great controversy—Huxley, 1869—Perry and the correspondence in Nature, 1895—Si...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-the-earth-78241/chapters/19/index.md)