The new science of geology : studies in the earth sciences in the age of revolution / Martin J. S. Rudwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudwick, M. J. S.

Series:

Collected studies ; 789.

Collected studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Earth sciences.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2004.

Contents:

Earth-History and the History of Geology

I Geologists' time: a brief history (The Story of Time, ed. K. Lippincott. London: Merrell Holberton, 1999) 1

II The shape and meaning of earth history (God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science, ed. D.C. Lindberg and R.L. Numbers. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986) 296

III Minerals, strata and fossils (Cultures of Natural History, ed. N. Jardine, J.A. Secord and E.C. Spary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) 266

IV The emergence of a new science (Minerva 28. Washington, DC, 1990) 386

V The emergence of a visual language for geological science 1760-1840 (History of Science 14. Chalfont St Giles, Bucks, 1976) 149

Cuvier and Earth-History

VI Jean-Andre de Luc and nature's chronology (The Age of the Earth: From 4004 BC to AD 2002, ed. C.L.E. Lewis and S.J. Knell. London: Geological Society, 2001, pp. 51-60) 1

VII Cuvier and Brongniart, William Smith, and the reconstruction of geohistory (Earth Sciences History 15. Tacoma, WA, 1996, pp. 25-36) 1

VIII Researches on Fossil Bones: Georges Cuvier and the collecting of international allies (First publication in English) 1

IX Georges Cuvier's paper museum of fossil bones (Archives of Natural History 27. London, 2000) 51

Geology in the Age of Lyell

X Encounters with Adam, or at least the hyaenas: nineteenth-century visual representations of the deep past (History, Humanity and Evolution, ed. J.R. Moore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) 231

XI A year in the life of Adam Sedgwick and company, geologists (Archives of Natural History 15. London, 1988) 243

XII Travel, travel, travel: geological fieldwork in the 1830s (First publication) 1

XIII The group construction of scientific knowledge: gentlemen-specialists and the Devonian controversy (The Kaleidoscope of Science, ed. E. Ullman-Margalit. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1986) 193

XIV The glacial theory (History of Science 8. Chalfont St Giles, Bucks, 1970) 136.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0860789586

OCLC:

53796961