early attempts at dating t came from ted t if you divided total amount of salt in t added eac t tence, unately no one kne increased eac impracticable.

    t attempt at measurement t could be called remotely scientific e de Buffon, in t  ted appreciable amounts of —t  to anyone  t any imating te of dissipation. Buffon’sexperiment consisted of ing spil te  and timating te of  loss by toucly at first) as to be someimate, but a radical notion nonetened ion for expressing it. A practical man,  oncefor less ed tions t ings.

    By teentury most learned people t t leasta fe probably notmore t. So it came as a surprise  created tretc, Surrey, and Sussex, aken, by ions,306,662,400 years to complete. tion ly for being so arrestinglyspecific but even more for flying in ted  th.

    3Itproved so contentious t Dar from tion of tually all books find a space for riking variability in tails associated  in 1650, otill ote te of Earted beginning as October 26. At least one book of note spells ;Us; tter isinterestingly surveyed in Step Little Piggies.

    3Dar number. In a later o be found in anaverage acre of Englisry soil was 53,767.

    problem at its  remained, obe old, but no one could figure out a o make it so.

    Unfortunately for Darion came to ttention of tLord Kelvin (, ill just plain illiam t be elevated to til 1892, ively).

    Kelvin  extraordinary figures of teentury—indeed of anycentury. tist z, no intellectual sloucet Kelvin est “intelligence and lucidity,