The revolution in geology from the Renaissance to the enlightenment / edited by Gary D. Rosenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosenberg, Gary D.

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Memoir (Geological Society of America) ; 203.

Memoir ; 203

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology--Europe--History--18th century.

Geology.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 283 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, [2009]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

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Contents:

The measure of man and landscape in the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution / Gary D. Rosenberg

Geochemical concepts in Isaac Newton's early alchemy / William R. Newman

From alchemy to science : the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment in Spanish American mining and metallurgy / Joaquín Pérez Melero

Signs and symbols in Kircher's Mundus Subterraneus / William C. Parcell

Niels Stensen-Steno, in the world of collections and museums / Elsebeth Thomsen

The path to Steno's synthesis on the animal origin of glossopetrae / Kuang-Tai Hsu

Hooke-Steno relations reconsidered : reassessing the roles of Ole Borch and Robert Boyle / Toshihiro Yamada

Prompters of Steno's geological principles : generations of stones in living beings, glossopetrae and molding / Troels Kardel

The age of Earth in Niels Stensen's geology / August Ziggelaar

Nicolaus Steno the problem of deep time / Alan H. Cutler

Nicholas Steno and René Descartes : a Cartesian perspective on Steno's scientific development / Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen

On the origin of natural history : Steno's modern, but forgotten philosophy of science / Jens Morten Hansen

Nicholas Steno's way from experience to faith : geological evolution and the original sin of mankind / Frank Sobiech

The Scientific Revolution and Nicholas Steno's twofold conversion / Gian Battista Vai

Benjamin Franklin and geology / Dennis R. Dean

Thomas Jefferson, extinction, and the evolving view of Earth history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Stephen M. Rowland

"Very vain is Science' proudest boast" : the resistance to geological theory in early nineteenth-century England / Noah Heringman

Charles S. Peirce and the "Light of Nature" / Victor R. Baker

Theory choice in the historical sciences : geology as a philosophical case study / William L. Vanderburgh

Natural theology, design and law / Michael T. Ghiselin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

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Other Format:

Print version: Revolution in geology from the Renaissance to the enlightenment.

OCLC:

682171603

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