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IT is well known that Sir W. Thomson has concluded, from different lines of argument, that the age of the earth, as a body cool enough for habitation, cannot be much greater than a hundred million years.
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EVERETT, J. Prof. Tait on the Earth's Age. Nature 13, 486 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/013486a0
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