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The biosphere / Vladimir I. Vernadsky ; forward by Lynn Margulis ...[and others] ; introduction by Jacques Grinevald ; translated by David B. Langmuir ; revised and annotated by Mark A.S. McMenamin.
Van Pelt Library QH343.4 .V4713 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vernadskiĭ, V. I. (Vladimir Ivanovich), 1863-1945.
- Standardized Title:
- Biosfera. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Biosphere.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Copernicus, [1998]
- Summary:
- Though long unknown in the West, Vladimir Vernadsky's "The Biosphere", first published in Russian in 1926, revolutionized our view of life on Earth and formed the foundation of what we now know as Gaia theory. With this milestone publication, the first English translation of the entire text, English-speaking readers can at last read one of the great classics of modern science in their own language.
- Notes:
- "A Peter N. Nevraumont book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 038798268X
- OCLC:
- 37211183
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