Author: Jean André DelucPublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Geological Travels in Some Parts of France, Switzerland, and Germany
Author: Jean André DelucPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Geological Travels in Some Parts of France, Switzerland, and Germany
Author: Jean André LucPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Geological Travels in Some Parts of France, Switzerland, and Germany
Author: Jean-André de LucPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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James Hutton and the History of Geology
Author: Dennis DeanPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501733990
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
In James Hutton and the History of Geology, Dennis R. Dean provides a more accurate and complete account of Hutton's major geological writings than any that has hitherto appeared. He examines the growth and development of Hutton's thought in the light of his training and experience in medicine, agriculture, and philosophy, locating him within the intellectual milieux of Edinburgh at the height of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Bursting the Limits of Time
Author: Martin J. S. RudwickPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226731146
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 733
Book Description
In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a six-thousand-year-old planet was only laid to rest during a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this relatively brief period, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud did, Bursting the Limits of Time is a herculean effort by one of the world's foremost experts on the history of geology and paleontology to sketch this historicization of the natural world in the age of revolution. Addressing this intellectual revolution for the first time, Rudwick examines the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together. He explores who was responsible for the discovery of the earth's history, refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth, and details how the study of the history of the earth helped define a new branch of science called geology. Rooting his analysis in a detailed study of primary sources, Rudwick emphasizes the lasting importance of field- and museum-based research of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bursting the Limits of Time, the culmination of more than three decades of research, is the first detailed account of this monumental phase in the history of science.
The Philosophical Magazine and Journal
Author: Four Centuries of Geological Travel
Author: Patrick Wyse JacksonPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862392342
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel focuses on the complexities of geological exploration and will be of particular interest to earth scientists, historians of science and to the general reader interested in science.
The British review and London critical journal
Author: Philosophical Magazine
Author: Catalogue of an Extensive and Valuable Collection of the Best Works on Natural History, Arranged in Classes According to the Linnean System, Now Selling ... by W. Wood
Author: William WOOD (F.R.S.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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