All these reckonings of the history of underground heat, the details of which I am sure you do not wish me to put before you at present, are founded on the very sure assumption that the material of our present solid earth all round its surface was at one time a white-hot liquid.


The Age of the Earth As An Abode Fitted for Life, Science, New Series, Volume 9, Number 229, May 19, 1898 (p. 672)

William Thomson Quotes

All these reckonings of the history of underground heat, the details of which I am sure you do not wish me to put before you at present, are founded...

All these reckonings of the history of underground heat, the details of which I am sure you do not wish me to put before you at present, are founded...

All these reckonings of the history of underground heat, the details of which I am sure you do not wish me to put before you at present, are founded...

All these reckonings of the history of underground heat, the details of which I am sure you do not wish me to put before you at present, are founded...