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Introduction
1
. From this point on I will tend to use “global warming” without a modifier to refer to the
concept that the Earth is warming and that human activities are the cause.
The Abyss of Time
1
. S. P. Thompson,
The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs
, vol. 1 (London:
Macmillan, 1910), 185.
2
. Ibid., 14.
3
. P. Q. R., “On Fourier's Expansions of Functions in Trigonometric Series,”
Cambridge
Mathematical Journal
2 (1841).
4
. D. Lindley,
Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy
(Washington, D.C.,
National Academies Press, 2004), 19.
5
. W. T. Kelvin, First Baron, J. Larmor, and J. P. Joule,
Mathematical and Physical Papers
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1882), 10.
6
. Thompson,
The Life of William Thomson
, 1:41.
7
. Ibid., 42.
8
. J. Hutton,
Theory of the Earth; or, an Investigation of the Laws Observable in the Compos-
ition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land Upon the Globe
, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: Royal Society of
Edinburgh, 1788), 304.
9
. J. Playfair,
Biographical Account of the Late Dr. James Hutton
(Edinburgh: Royal Society
of Edinburgh, 1805), 73.
10
. J. Hutton,
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(Edinburgh: William Creech,
1795), reprod.:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98697m
,
chap. 14.
11
. S. J. Gould,
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geolo-
gical Time
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987), 105.
12
. C. Lyell,
Principles of Geology
, 1st ed. (London: J. Murray, 1830), 164-165.
13
. C. Lyell,
Life, Letters, and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell
(London: J. Murray, 1881), 262.
14
. Lyell,
Principles of Geology
, 123.
15
. See Gould,
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
.
16
. Ibid., 119.
17
. W. Whewell, “Principles of Geology . . . by Charles Lyell,”
Quarterly Review
47 (1832):
126.
18
. Lyell,
Principles of Geology
, 165.
19
. Gould,
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
, 171.
20
. A. Geikie,
The Founders of Geology
(London: Macmillan, 1905), 403-404.
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