HISTORY 135C

Department of History
University of California, Irvine
 Instructor:    Dr. Barbara J. Becker

Week 9.  The Great Debate.

Supplementary readings for Week 9's lectures include excerpts from:

  • "The Age of the Sun's Heat," Macmillan's Magazine (March 5, 1862), pp. 288-293, by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
  • "On the Secular Cooling of the Earth," Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864) Vol. XXIII, pp. 167-169, by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

 
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