Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Proceedings of the Geological Society of London
The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Proceedings of the Geological Society of London
The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
Author: Geological Society of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30)
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
Author: The Quarterly Journal
Author: Geological Society of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society
Author: Show Me the Bone
Author: Gowan DawsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022633287X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty—“Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!” Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded as scientific virtuosos, sometimes even veritable wizards, capable of resurrecting the denizens of an ancient past from a mere glance at a fragmentary bone. Such extraordinary feats of predictive reasoning relied on the law of correlation, which proposed that each element of an animal corresponds mutually with each of the others, so that a carnivorous tooth must be accompanied by a certain kind of jawbone, neck, stomach, limbs, and feet. Show Me the Bone tells the story of the rise and fall of this famous claim, tracing its fortunes from Europe to America and showing how it persisted in popular science and literature and shaped the practices of paleontologists long after the method on which it was based had been refuted. In so doing, Gowan Dawson reveals how decisively the practices of the scientific elite were—and still are—shaped by their interactions with the general public.
Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Upper Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Author: Academy of Natural Sciences of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
"Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794.
Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 5, 1851-1855
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521255912
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
"For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's are made available, edited according to modern textual editorial principles and practice. Letter-writing was of crucial importance to Darwin's work, not only because his poor health isolated him from direct personal communication with his scientific colleagues but also because the nature of his investigations required communication with naturalists in many fields and in all quarters of the globe. Thus the letters are a mine of information about the work in progress of a creative genius who produced an intellectual revolution." --