The New Science of Geology
Ashgate Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-0-86078-958-1 (ISBN)
Martin J.S. Rudwick is Professor Emeritus of History of Science, University of California San Diego, USA and University of Cambridge, UK.
Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Earth-History and the History of Geology: Geologists' time: a brief history; The shape and meaning of earth history; Minerals, strata and fossils; The emergence of a new science; The emergence of a visual language for geological science, 1760-1840. Cuvier and Earth-History: Jean-André de Luc and nature's chronology; Cuvier and Brongniart, William Smith, and the reconstruction of geohistory; Researches on fossil bones: Georges Cuvier and the collecting of international allies; Georges Cuvier's paper museum of fossil bones. Geology in the Age of Lyell: Encounters with Adam, or at least the hyaenas; 19th-century visual representations of the deep past; A year in the life of Adam Sedgwick and company, geologists; Travel, travel, travel: geological fieldwork in the 1830s; The group construction of scientific knowledge: gentlemen-specialists and the Devonian controversy; The glacial theory; Index.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.5.2004 |
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Reihe/Serie | Variorum Collected Studies |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 1360 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie |
ISBN-10 | 0-86078-958-6 / 0860789586 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-86078-958-1 / 9780860789581 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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