Toward a history of geology : proceedings / Cecil J. Schneer, editor.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Schneer, Cecil J., 1923- editor.

History of Science Society, sponsor.

Council on Education in the Geological Sciences, sponsor.

American Geological Institute, sponsor.

MIT Press, publisher.

Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Conference Name:

New Hampshire Inter-disciplinary Conference on the History of Geology (1967 : Rye Beach (Rye, N.H.))

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology--History--Congresses.

Geology.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

vi, 469 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

Cambridge : Riverside Press, Inc.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : M.I.T. Press 1969.

Contents:

Introduction / Cecil J. Schneer

Alexander von Humboldt : remarks on the meaning of hypothesis in his geological researches / Hans Baumgärtel

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire versus Cuvier : the campaign for paleontological evolution (1825-1838) / Franck Bourdier

Mineral classification in the early nineteenth century / John G. Burke

Charles Lyell is permitted to speak for himself : an abstract / Walter F. Cannon

De Millet's Telliamed (1748) An ultra-Neptunian theory of the earth / Albert V. Carozzi

Edward Jorden and the fermentation of the metals : an iatrochemical study of terrestrial phenomena / Allen G. Debus

James Hutton and the concept of a dynamic earth / R.H. Dott Jr.

William Smith : some aspects of his life and work / Joan M. Eyles

The extent of geological knowledge in the eighteenth century and the methods by which it was diffused / V.A. Eyles

The development of mineralogy in Philadelphia, 1780-1820 : a summary John C. Greene

The influence of Torbern Bergman (1735-1784) on stratigraphy : a résumé / Hollis D. Hedberg

Some notes on Dr. Scheuchzer and Homo diluvii testis / Melvin E. Jahn

Theories of the earth in Renaissance cosmologies / Suzanne Kelly

Bernard Palissy / Aurèle La Rocque

Reflections on A.G. Werner's "Kurze Klassifikation" / Alexander M. Ospovat

Diluvialism and its critics in Great Britain in the early nineteenth century / Leroy E. Page

The geological atlas of Guerrard, Lavoisier, and Monnet : conflicting views of the nature of geology / Rhoda Rappaport

Lyel on Etna, and the antiquity of the earth / Martin J.S. Rudwick

Genesis, evolution, and geology in America before Darwin : the Dana-Lewis controversy, 1856-1857 / Morgan B. Sherwood

Porcelain and plutonism / Cyril Stanley Smith

Nicolas Desmarest and geology in the eighteenth century / Kenneth L. Taylorhiladelphia, 1780-1820 : a summary The development of the geological sciences in the U.S.S.R. from ancient times to the middle of the nineteenth century / V.V. Tikhomirov

Changing ideas about moving shorelines / Eugene Wegmann

Early geological observations in the American midwest / George W. White

The intellectual background to Charles Lyell's Principles of geology, 1830-1933 / Leonard G. Wilson.

Notes:

Sponsored by the History of Science Society, and the Council on Education in the Geological Sciences of the American Geological Institute.

"Set in Linotype Janson, and printed and bound in the United States of America by The Riverside Press, Inc."--verso of title page

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Kislak Center copy retains dust jacket.

ISBN:

0262190583

OCLC:

58954