Author: William BucklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Address Delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 21st of February 1840
Author: William BucklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 21st of February 1840; and the announcement of the award of the Wollaston Medal and Donation Fund for the same year. (Extracted from the Proceedings of the Geological Society.).
Author: William BUCKLAND (Dean of Westminster.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Bones and Ochre
Author: Marianne SommerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674024991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
When ochre-stained bones were unearthed by William Buckland in a Welsh cave in 1823, they raised many unsettling questions regarding their origin, and inspired the casting and recasting of the character who became known as the Red Lady. Her biography reflects the personal, professional, and national ambitions of those who studied her.
The Meaning of Fossils
Author: Martin J.S. RudwickPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022614898X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field."—Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology "Rudwick has not merely written the first book-length history of palaeontology in the English language; he has written a very intelligent one. . . . His accounts of sources are rounded and organic: he treats the structure of arguments as Cuvier handled fossil bones."—Roy S. Porter, History of Science
Reading the Book of Nature
Author: Jonathan R. TophamPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226815765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
"When Darwin returned to Britain from the Beagle voyage in 1836, the most talked-about scientific books were the Bridgewater Treatises. This series of eight books was funded by a bequest of the last Earl of Bridgewater, and they were authored by leading men of science, appointed by the President of the Royal Society, and intended to explore "the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation." Securing public attention beyond all expectations, the series gave Darwin's generation a range of approaches to one of the great questions of the age: how to incorporate the newly emerging disciplinary sciences into Britain's overwhelmingly Christian culture. Drawing on a wealth of archival and published sources, including many unexplored by historians, Jonathan R. Topham examines how and to what extent the series contributed to a sense of congruence between Christianity and the sciences in the generation before the infamous Victorian "conflict between science and religion." He does so by drawing on the distinctive insights of book history, using close attention to the production, circulation, and use of the books to open up new perspectives not only on aspects of early Victorian science but also on the whole subject of science and religion. Its innovative focus on practices of authorship, publishing, and reading helps us to understand the everyday considerations and activities through which the religious culture of early Victorian science was fashioned. And in doing so, Reading the Book of Nature powerfully reimagines the world in which a young Charles Darwin learned how to think about the implications of his theory"--
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum ...
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Report of the Council Presented to the Annual General Meeting
Author: Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, Leicester, EngPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Author: William Buckland