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Show me the bone : reconstructing prehistoric monsters in nineteenth-century Britain and America / Gowan Dawson.
LIBRA QE705.A1 D39 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dawson, Gowan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paleontology--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Paleontology.
- Paleontology--United States--History--19th century.
- Paleontologists--Biography.
- Paleontologists.
- Animals, Fossil.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 476 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Cuvier's law of correlation
- Part I. Arrival, 1795-1839 : translations and appropriations. Correlation crosses the Channel ; Fragments of design
- Part II. Triumph, 1839-54 : bones, serials, and models. Discovering the dinornis ; Paleontology in parts ; Correlation at the Crystal Palace
- Part III. Overthrow, 1854-62 : scientific naturalists, popularizers, and cannibals. Correlation under siege ; The problems of popularization ; Unfortunate allies
- Part IV. Afterlife, 1862-1917 : missing links and hidden clues. Evolutionary modifications ; Prophecies of the past
- Epilogue: Ghosts of correlation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-453) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226332734
- 022633273X
- OCLC:
- 913164287
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