The Dating Game: One man’s search for the age of the Earth by Cherry Lewis,
Cambridge University Press, £17.95, ISBN 0521790514
MENTION Arthur Holmes to a geologist and most will say, “Oh, yes, the book.”
What they’re referring to is a thumping great textbook, Principles of
Physical Geology, and most will have seen it as a student. Surprisingly,
the man behind this excellent book is practically unknown to
geologists—and unheard of outside their world.
Holmes, who was born in 1890 and died in 1965, helped to lead the revolution
that took geology from a pastime for gentlemen to a…
