Author: Charles DavisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Founders of Seismology
Author: Charles DavisonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107691494
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book, first published in 1927, provides a historical study regarding the origins of seismology and the key figures in its development.
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Author: Charles DavisonThe Origin of Earthquakes
Author: Charles DavisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Founders of Seismology
Author: Charles DavisonA Study of Recent Earthquakes
Author: Charles DavisonPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
"A Study of Recent Earthquakes" by Charles Davison is a comprehensive examination of seismic activity and its impact on Earth's geology and inhabitants. Davison's expertise as a geologist shines through as he analyzes the data from recent earthquakes, shedding light on the mechanisms and patterns of these natural phenomena. With its scientific rigor and accessible writing, this ebook provides a fascinating glimpse into the powerful forces that shape our planet.
Magnitude 8
Author: Philip L. FradkinPublisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1466864311
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Magnitude 8 is the archetypal natural disaster defined. To understand the cataclysmic earthquake that will tear California apart one day, Philip L. Fradkin has written a dramatic history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the world's best-known tectonic landscape. The author includes vivid stories of earthquakes elsewhere: in New England, the central Mississippi River Valley, New York City, Europe, and the Far East. Always, he combines human and natural drama to place the reader at the epicenter of the most instantaneous and unpredictable of all the Earth's phenomena. Following the San Andreas Fault from Cape Mecino to Mexico--canoeing the fault line in northern California and walking underground through the Hollywood fault--noted environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reclaims the human dimensions of earthquakes from the science-dominated accounts.
California Earthquakes
Author: Carl-Henry GeschwindPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801873606
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Winner of the Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in America from the History of Science Society In 1906, after an earthquake wiped out much of San Francisco, leading California officials and scientists described the disaster as a one-time occurrence and assured the public that it had nothing to worry about. California Earthquakes explains how, over time, this attitude changed, and Californians came to accept earthquakes as a significant threat, as well as to understand how science and technology could reduce this threat. Carl-Henry Geschwind tells the story of the small group of scientists and engineers who—in tension with real estate speculators and other pro-growth forces, private and public—developed the scientific and political infrastructure necessary to implement greater earthquake awareness. Through their political connections, these reformers succeeded in building a state apparatus in which regulators could work together with scientists and engineers to reduce earthquake hazards. Geschwind details the conflicts among scientists and engineers about how best to reduce these risks, and he outlines the dramatic twentieth-century advances in our understanding of earthquakes—their causes and how we can try to prepare for them. Tracing the history of seismology and the rise of the regulatory state and of environmental awareness, California Earthquakes tells how earthquake-hazard management came about, why some groups assisted and others fought it, and how scientists and engineers helped shape it.
Geography, Technology and Instruments of Exploration
Author: Fraser MacDonaldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317128834
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Focusing on aspects of the functioning of technology, and by looking at instruments and at instrumental performance, this book addresses the epistemological questions arising from examining the technological bases to geographical exploration and knowledge claims. Questions of geography and exploration and technology are addressed in historical and contemporary context and in different geographical locations and intellectual cultures. The collection brings together scholars in the history of geographical exploration, historians of science, historians of technology and, importantly, experts with curatorial responsibilities for, and museological expertise in, major instrument collections. Ranging in their focus from studies of astronomical practice to seismography, meteorological instruments and rockets, from radar to the hand-held barometer, the chapters of this book examine the ways in which instruments and questions of technology - too often overlooked hitherto - offer insight into the connections between geography and exploration.
American Disasters
Author: Steven BielPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814713467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Ranging widely, essayists here examine the 1900 storm that ravaged Galveston, Texas, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Titanic sinking, the Northridge earthquake, the crash of Air Florida Flight 90, the 1977 Chicago El train crash, and many other devastating events. These catastrophes elicited vastly different responses, and thus raise a number of important questions. How, for example did African Americans, feminists, and labor activists respond to the Titanic disaster? Why did the El train crash take on such symbolic meaning for the citizens of Chicago? In what ways did the San Francisco earthquake reaffirm rather than challenge a predominant faith in progress?