Author: Daniel Moreau BarringerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Heroic Efforts at Meteor Crater, Arizona
Author: Daniel Moreau BarringerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Coon Mountain Controversies
Author: William Graves HoytPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816509683
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
"Blends the scientific issues, the commercial and legal factors, and the personalities involved into a sure-footed narrative that never fails to hold the reader's interest. . . . it is difficult to imagine a more carefully documented and sensibly reasoned account of the way in which ideas on impact theory evolved. . . . of considerable, and probably lasting, value."ÑNature "This meticulously prepared and lucidly written work will surely prove the definitive account of one of the most stimulating intellectual confrontations in the whole history of the earth and planetary sciences. I can recommend it without reservation."ÑWilliam A. S. Sarjeant,Geoscience Canada "An important book by an extraordinary author, of interest to anyone fascinated by the ways in which unorthodox science becomes part of conventional wisdom."ÑEarth Sciences History
Literature 1984, Part 2
Author: S. BöhmePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662123460
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Innovation as a Social Process
Author: W. Bernard CarlsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521533126
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Elihu Thomson was a late-nineteenth-century American inventor who helped create the first electric lighting and power systems. One of the most prolific inventors in American history, Thomson was granted nearly 700 patents in a career spanning the 1880s to 1930s.
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 Journal of Arizona History
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Author: The Fallen Sky
Author: Christopher CokinosPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101133228
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
In this acclaimed volume, prizewinning poet and nature writer Christopher Cokinos takes us on an epic journey from Antarctica to outer space, weaving together natural history, memoir, and in-depth profiles of amateur researchers, rogue scientists, and stargazing dreamers to tell the riveting tale of how the study of meteorites became a modern science.
Arizona's Meteorite Crater
Author: Harvey Harlow NiningerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crater Mounds, Ariz
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Author: Grove Karl Gilbert