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Terra incognita : a history of ignorance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Alain Corbin ; translated by Susan Pickford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corbin, Alain, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Terra incognita. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Social aspects--History--18th century.
- Science.
- Science--Social aspects--History--19th century.
- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)--Social aspects.
- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge).
- Social aspects.
- Science--Social aspects.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 227 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Part I Gaps in Enlightenment Knowledge of the Earth
- 1 The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 p. 11
- 2 The Age of the Earth? p. 22
- 3 Imagining the Earth's Internal Structure p. 29
- 4 The Mystery of the Poles p. 37
- 5 The Unfathomable Mysteries of the Deep p. 44
- 6 Discovering Mountains p. 50
- 7 Mysterious Glaciers p. 58
- 8 A Fascination with Volcanoes p. 62
- 9 The Birth of Meteorology p. 73
- 10 Conquering the Skies p. 84
- 11 The State of Scientific Ignorance at the End of the Age of Enlightenment p. 87
- Part II A Gradual Decline in Ignorance (1800-1850)
- 12 Understanding Glaciers p. 93
- 13 The Birth of Geology p. 97
- 14 Volcanoes and the Mystery of 'Dry Fogs' p. 103
- 15 The Ocean Depths and the Fear of the Unknown p. 109
- 16 Reading Clouds and the Beaufort Scale p. 113
- 17 The Poles Remain a Mystery p. 121
- 18 The State of Scientific Ignorance in the Early 1860s p. 126
- Part III Shrinking the Boundaries of Ignorance (1860-1900)
- 19 Exploring the Ocean Depths p. 131
- 20 The Development of Dynamic Meteorology p. 136
- 21 Manned Flight and the Discovery of the Troposphere and Stratosphere p. 142
- 22 Scientific Volcanology and the Birth of Seismology p. 145
- 23 Measuring the Grip of Ice p. 150
- 24 Solving the Mysteries of Rivers: Fluvialism, Hydrology and Speleology p. 153
- 25 A New Approach to Reading the Globe p. 161
- 26 Was There Open Sea at the Poles? p. 166
- 27 The Earth Sciences Slowly Filter into General Knowledge p. 175
- 28 Measuring Ignorance at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century p. 188.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in French as Terra Incognita: Une histoire de l'ignorance. XVIIIe-XIXe siècle (c) Editions Albin Michel - Paris 2020."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 30, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Corbin, Alain. Terra incognita
- ISBN:
- 9781509548033
- 1509548033
- 9781509546275
- 1509546278
- Publisher Number:
- 40030651757
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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