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Worlds before Adam the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform

M. J. S. Rudwick

Chicago University of Chicago Press c2008

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  • Título:
    Worlds before Adam the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform
  • Autor: M. J. S. Rudwick
  • Assuntos: Geology -- Europe -- History -- 19th century; Science -- Europe -- History -- 19th century; Paläontologie; Historische Geologie; GEOLOGIA HISTÓRICA -- EUROPA; GEOGRAFIA (HISTÓRIA) -- EUROPA; HISTÓRIA DA CIÊNCIA
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-603) and index.
  • Descrição: Cuvier's model for geohistory (1817-25) -- Monsters from deep time (1819-24) -- The new stratigraphy (1817-25) -- Outline of life's history (1818-27) -- Ancient monsters on land (1818-25) -- Geological deluge and biblical flood (1819-24) -- The role of actual causes (1818-24) -- The dynamic earth (1818-24) -- The engine of geohistory (1824-29) -- The tertiary gateway (1824-27) -- The geologists' time-machine (1825-31) -- A directional history of life (1825-31) -- The last revolution (1824-30) -- The last mass extinction (1826-31) -- The centrality of central France (1826-28) -- Men among the mammoths? (1825-30) -- The specter of transmutation (1825-29) -- Lyell and Auvergne geology (1827-28) -- A geological grand tour (1828) -- Lyell in European context (1829-30) -- Geology's guiding principles (1830) -- "The Huttonian theory rediviva" (1830-31) -- Promoting Lyell's Principles (1830-31) -- The uniformity of life (1831-32) -- Completing Lyell's Principles (1832-33) -- Geohistory in retrospect (1833) -- Challenges to Lyell's geotheory (1832-35) -- The human species in geohistory (1830-37) -- Buckland's designful geohistory (1832-36) -- The progression of life (1833-39) -- Imagining geohistory (1831-40) -- Lyell's geotheory dismembered (1834-40) -- Actual causes on trial (1834-39) -- Explaining erratics (1833-40) -- Snowball earth? (1835-40) -- Taking stock for the future (1840-45).
  • Editor: Chicago University of Chicago Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: c2008
  • Formato: xii, 614 p ill., maps, ports. 27 cm..
  • Idioma: Inglês
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