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Patrons of paleontology : how government support shaped a science / Jane P. Davidson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, Jane P., author.
- Series:
- Life of the past.
- Life of the Past
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paleontology--Finance--History--18th century.
- Paleontology.
- Paleontology--Finance--History--19th century.
- Paleontology--Finance--History--20th century.
- Paleontology--United States--Finance--History--19th century.
- Paleontology--United States--Finance--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- These early decades of government support shaped the way the discipline grew, creating practices and enabling discoveries that continue to affect paleontology today.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the cost of doing business
- The beginnings of government support for paleontology
- Eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century paleontologists and patrons
- Developments in government support for paleontology in the United States between 1830 to about 1880
- Paleontology in mid nineteenth-century surveys outside the United States
- Government support for paleontology in the late nineteenth century and the turn of the twentieth century : 1880 to about 1940
- Conclusion : the chain of paleontology
- Appendix : glossary of prominent patrons and paleontologists.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780253033574
- 0253033578
- 9780253033581
- 0253033586
- OCLC:
- 1394120540
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