Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Martin J. S. Rudwick
yhteensä 17 hakutulosta
Worlds Before Adam
The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth, Martin J. S. Rudwick's "Worlds Before Adam" picks up where his celebrated "Bursting the Limits of …
Bursting the Limits of Time
During a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth - and the relatively recent …
Scenes from Deep Time
How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first …
The New Science of Geology
The science of geology was constructed in the decades around 1800 from earlier practices that had been significantly different in their cognitive goals. In the studies collected …
The Meaning of Fossils
Examines the way in which the study of fossils in five historical periods since the Renaissance reflects man's changing view of nature
Lyell and Darwin, Geologists
The studies in this second volume by Martin Rudwick (the first being The New Science of Geology: Studies in the Earth Science in the Age of Reform) focus on the figures of Charles …
Bursting the Limits of Time
In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 …
Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes
Until quite recently, French zoologist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) opposed the biological theory of evolution, and championed the geological theory of catastrophism; but his careful …
Worlds Before Adam
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The …
Lyell and Darwin, Geologists
The studies in this second volume by Martin Rudwick (the first being The New Science of Geology: Studies in the Earth Science in the Age of Reform) focus on the figures of Charles …
Great Devonian Controversy
"e;Arguably the best work to date in the history of geology."e;-David R. Oldroyd, Science"e;After a superficial first glance, most readers of good will and broad …
Scenes from Deep Time
How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the years prior to the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species" to produce the first …