The Birth And Development Of The Geological Sciences
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Author | : Frank Dawson Adams |
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Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Geolgoy |
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Geological sciences in classical times; the conception of the universe in the middle age; on the generation of stones; medieval mineralogy; the birth of modern mineralogy and its development from agricola to Werner and Berzelius; the birth of historical geology with the rise and fall of the neptunian theory; figured stones and the birth of palaentology; the origin of metals and their ores; the origin of mountains; earthquakes and the nature of the interior of the earth; the origin of springs and rivers; quaint stories and beliefs.
Author | : Frank Dawson Adams |
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Release | : 1954 |
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Author | : Jeremy Davies |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2016-05-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520964330 |
Download The Birth of the Anthropocene Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birth of the Anthropocene shows how this epochal transformation puts the deep history of the planet at the heart of contemporary environmental politics. By opening a window onto geological time, the idea of the Anthropocene changes our understanding of present-day environmental destruction and injustice. Linking new developments in earth science to the insights of world historians, Jeremy Davies shows that as the Anthropocene epoch begins, politics and geology have become inextricably entwined.
Author | : Frank Dawson Adams |
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Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1954 |
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Download The Birth and Death of the Geological Sciences Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Henry Shaler Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Evolution |
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Download Geological Biology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Kieran D. O'Hara |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1316812146 |
Download A Brief History of Geology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Geology as a science has a fascinating and controversial history. Kieran D. O'Hara's book provides a brief and accessible account of the major events in the history of geology over the last two hundred years, from early theories of Earth structure during the Reformation, through major controversies over the age of the Earth during the Industrial Revolution, to the more recent twentieth-century development of plate tectonic theory, and on to current ideas concerning the Anthropocene. Most chapters include a short 'text box' providing more technical and detailed elaborations on selected topics. The book also includes a history of the geology of the Moon, a topic not normally included in books on the history of geology. The book will appeal to students of Earth science, researchers in geology who wish to learn more about the history of their subject, and general readers interested in the history of science.
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Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Download Colonial Geology and Mineral Resources Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Martin J. S. Rudwick |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2014-10-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022620409X |
Download Earth's Deep History Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
“Tells the story . . . of how ‘natural philosophers’ developed the ideas of geology accepted today . . . Fascinating.” —San Francisco Book Review Earth has been witness to dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for it collected and interpreted? In this sweeping and accessible book, Martin J. S. Rudwick, the premier historian of the Earth sciences, tells the gripping human story of the gradual realization that the Earth’s history has not only been long but also astonishingly eventful. Rudwick begins in the seventeenth century with Archbishop James Ussher, who famously dated the creation of the cosmos to 4004 BC. His narrative later turns to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when geological evidence was used—and is still being used—to reconstruct a history of the Earth that is as varied and unpredictable as human history. itself. Along the way, Rudwick rejects the popular view of this story as a conflict between science and religion and shows how the modern scientific account of the Earth’s deep history retains strong roots in Judeo-Christian ideas. Extensively illustrated, Earth’s Deep History is an engaging and impressive capstone to Rudwick’s distinguished career. “Deftly explains how ideas of natural history were embedded in cultural history.” —Nature “An engaging read for nonscientists and specialists alike.” —Library Journal “Wonderfully erudite and absorbing.” —Times Literary Supplement “Fascinating, well written, and novel . . . Essential.” —Choice “Thrilling.” —London Review of Books
Author | : Kenneth L. Taylor |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2024-10-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1040245587 |
Download The Earth Sciences in the Enlightenment Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume is concerned with the geological sciences in the 18th century, with special emphasis on France and French scientists. A first focus is on the pioneering geologist Nicolas Desmarest, whose investigations in Auvergne and Italy (among other places) had important consequences in geological theory and practice. Desmarest emerges as a figure of intriguing complexity and refined methodological convictions, defying facile interpretation in terms of, for instance, a simple polarity between vulcanism and neptunism. Widening his inquiry beyond Desmarest, Professor Taylor also endeavors to recover key elements of the presuppositions and thought-patterns of Enlightenment geologists, and to discern how geological investigation worked during this formative period. In the era that modern geological science was beginning to take form, many of the participants are seen as struggling to define their scientific objectives and procedures by drawing from the competing frameworks of physique or natural philosophy, descriptive natural history, and antiquarian scholarship or developmental history. One of the articles (Reflections on Natural Laws in Eighteenth-Century Geology) appears here for the first time in English.
Author | : Kelly Boyd |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 864 |
Release | : 2019-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113678764X |
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The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day, including individuals from related disciplines like Jürgen Habermas and Clifford Geertz, whose theoretical contributions have informed historical debate. Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. In addition to the Western tradition, it includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.