A Natural History of Time

Preface

1          Time without a Beginning?
2          On the Great Book of Moses
3          Genesis as Viewed through the Prism of Natural Philosophy
4          Nature’s Admirable Medals
5          The March of the Comets
6          Heroic Age, Relative Time
7          The Long History of Two Barons
8          The Elasticity of Time
9          The Pandora’s Box of Physics
10         The Sun, the Earth, Radioactivity--and Kelvin’s Death
11         The Long Quest of Arthur Holmes
12         From the Atomic Bomb to the Age of the Earth

Epilogue
Appendix: Mathematical Complements

Source Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Bibliography   
Index