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I HAVE just finished reading a most interesting book on “The Universe Around Us”, by Sir James Jeans. It opens up a complex and abstruse subject with admirable clearness, so that even a geologist possessed of very little mathematics can find his way through it without too much difficulty. The ease with which in this brilliant book millions of millions of stars are marshalled and their history outlined for millions of millions of years inspires no little awe and a large amount of envy in the breast of a plodding geologist who keeps to the solid earth. If the book contained only the inspiring visions of an astronomer in regard to the origin and the fate of the universe around us a geologist might refrain from comment; but at several points the history of the earth and its inhabitants is touched upon, giving him a right to a word of criticism.
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COLEMAN, A. Age of the Earth. Nature 125, 668–669 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125668a0
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