Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. Time without a Beginning? 1
5. 2. On the Great Book of Moses 24
6. 3. Genesis as Viewed through the Prism of Natural Philosophy 54
7. 4. Nature’s Admirable Medals 85
8. 5. The March of the Comets 114
9. 6. Heroic Age, Relative Time 143
10. 7. The Long History of Two Barons 176
11. 8. The Elasticity of Time 206
12. 9. The Pandora’s Box of Physics 237
13. 10. The Sun, the Earth, Radioactivity—and Kelvin’s Death 264
14. 11. The Long Quest of Arthur Holmes 288
15. 12. From the Atomic Bomb to the Age of the Earth 320
16. Epilogue 350
17. Appendix: Mathematical Complements 355
18. Source Notes 357
19. Suggestions for Further Reading and Reference 373
20. Bibliography 409
21. Index 455