Jurassic Mary

Author : Patricia Pierce
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752495699

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Jurassic Mary by Patricia Pierce Pdf

Spinster Mary Anning, uneducated and poor, was of the wrong sex, wrong class and wrong religion, but fate decreed that she was exactly the right person in the right place and time to pioneer the emerging science of palaeontology, the study of fossils. Born in Lyme Regis in 1799, Mary learned to collect fossils with her cabinet-maker father. The unstable cliffs and stealthy sea made the task dangerous but after her father died the sale of fossils sustained her family. Mary's fame started as an infant when she survived a lightning strike that killed the three adults around her. Then, aged twelve, she caught the public's attention when she unearthed the skeleton of a 'fish lizard' or Ichthyosaurus. She later found the first Plesiosaurus giganteus, with its extraordinary long neck associated with the Loch Ness monster, and, dramatically, she unearthed the first, still rare, Dimorphodon macronyx, a frightening 'flying dragon' with hand claws and teeth. Yet her many discoveries were announced to the world by male geologists like the irrepressible William Buckland and Sir Henry De La Beche and they often received the credit. In Jurassic Mary Patricia Pierce redresses this imbalance, bringing to life the extraordinary, little-known story of this determined and pioneering woman.

Author : Michael Leddra
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 1444323261

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Time Matters by Michael Leddra Pdf

Time Matters provides an invaluable insight into thebackground behind some of the key concepts we use in Earth sciencetoday. It shows the historical context in which these ideas weredeveloped, the important contributions of individual scientists andthinkers, and how these ideas continue to shape our view of scienceand the world in which we live. The book covers subjects such as the age of the earth,catastrophism vs uniformitarianism, evolution vs creationism,plutonism vs neptunism, continental drift and plate tectonics. Itexplores the people involved, their ideas and the scientific andreligious power politics involved in the development. It iseffectively partly a review of the way in which science works ordoes not work. The text includes questions and comment boxes whichhelp the reader to appreciate/understand the ideas and conceptsthat have been included and their problems, strengths orweaknesses. Accessible introduction – does not assume priorknowledge Teaches scientific thought – particularly the use ofevidence Topic based – uses a set of key geological theories This book is written for anyone with an interest in geology andthe history of science, but will be particularly valuable touniversity or high-school students beginning a study of earthscience for the first time.

Author : Shelley Emling
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780230100978

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The Fossil Hunter by Shelley Emling Pdf

At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day. Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct. The child of a poor family, Mary became a fossil hunter, inspiring the tongue-twister, "She Sells Sea Shells by the Seashore." She attracted the attention of fossil collectors and eventually the scientific world. Once news of the fossils reached the halls of academia, it became impossible to ignore the truth. Mary's peculiar finds helped lay the groundwork for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, laid out in his On the Origin of Species. Darwin drew on Mary's fossilized creatures as irrefutable evidence that life in the past was nothing like life in the present. A story worthy of Dickens, The Fossil Hunter chronicles the life of this young girl, with dirt under her fingernails and not a shilling to buy dinner, who became a world-renowned paleontologist. Dickens himself said of Mary: "The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it." Here at last, Shelley Emling returns Mary Anning, of whom Stephen J. Gould remarked, is "probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology," to her deserved place in history.

Author : Annalisa Berta,Susan Turner
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421439709

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Rebels, Scholars, Explorers by Annalisa Berta,Susan Turner Pdf

Illuminating the discoveries, collections, and studies of fossil vertebrates conducted by women in vertebrate paleontology, Rebels, Scholars, Explorers will be on every paleontologist's most-wanted list and should find a broader audience in the burgeoning sector of readers from all backgrounds eager to learn about women in the sciences.

Author : Linda Skeers
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728230481

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Dinosaur Lady by Linda Skeers Pdf

A beautifully illustrated picture book biography of Mary Anning that will enlighten children about the discovery of the dinosaurs and the importance of female scientists, perfect for fans of The Girl Who Thought in Pictures Mary Anning loved scouring the beach near her home in England for shells and fossils. She fearlessly climbed over crumbling cliffs and rocky peaks, searching for new specimens. One day, something caught Mary's eye. Bones. Dinosaur Bones. Mary's discoveries rocked the world of science and helped create a brand-new field of study: paleontology. But many people believed women couldn't be scientists, so Mary wasn't given the credit she deserved. Nevertheless, Mary kept looking and learning more, making discoveries that reshaped scientific beliefs about the natural world. Educational backmatter includes a timeline of Mary Anning's life and lots of fantastic fossil facts! The perfect choice for parents and teachers looking for: Dinosaur books for kids 5-7 and kids books about fossils Feminist picture books about historical women, and daring books for girls Kids STEM books

Author : Michael Sanchez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781631593673

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Natural History Collector: Hunt, Discover, Learn! by Michael Sanchez Pdf

Loaded with hands-on, kid-friendly projects, Natural History Collector: Hunt, Discover, Learn! is for budding naturalists and nature collectors. This book teaches techniques for cleaning, caring for, and displaying discovered treasures.

Author : Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Age of Dinosaurs by Spencer G. Lucas Pdf

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Geology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044055614010

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Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey by Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCSD:31822016441230

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Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ella Schwartz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781547602292

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Stolen Science by Ella Schwartz Pdf

A fresh approach to a timely topic, Stolen Science is a fascinating compendium of stories of uncredited scientists and inventors throughout the ages. Over the centuries, women, people from underrepresented communities, and immigrants overcame prejudices and social obstacles to make remarkable discoveries in science--but they weren't the ones to receive credit in history books. People with more power, money, and prestige were remembered as the inventor of the telephone, the scientists who decoded the structure of DNA, and the doctor who discovered the cause of yellow fever. This book aims to set the record straight and celebrate the nearly forgotten inventors and scientists who shaped our world today.

Author : Gisela Febel,Kerstin Knopf,Martin Nonhoff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658377847

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Contradiction Studies – Exploring the Field by Gisela Febel,Kerstin Knopf,Martin Nonhoff Pdf

“Contradiction” is a core concept in the humanities and the social sciences. Beside the classical ideas of logical or dialectical contradiction, instances of “lived” contradiction and strategies of coping with it are objects of this study. Contradiction Studies discuss the many ways in which explicit or implicit contradictions are negotiated in different political or cultural settings. This volume collects articles that tackle the concept of contradiction, practices of contradicting and lived contradictions from a number of relevant perspectives and assembles contributions from linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, political science, and media studies.

Author : Robert Snedden
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781482431476

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Mary Anning by Robert Snedden Pdf

In 2010, the Royal Society named Mary Anning one of the 10 British women most influential in the history of science. Though she wasn’t appreciated in her time because she was a woman, Anning certainly earned this distinction. Readers are introduced to one of the premier fossil hunters of 19th century England through biography, historic images, and detailed sidebars. Anning learned how to find and clean fossils from her father and began doing so when she was a child. With this in mind, readers can find inspiration—as well as interesting scientific content—in her story.

Author : Richard Moody
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 1862393117

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Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians by Richard Moody Pdf

The discovery of dinosaurs and other large extinct saurians - a term under which the Victorians commonly lumped ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and their kin - makes exciting reading and has caught the attention of palaeontologists, historians of science and the general public alike. The papers in this collection go beyond the familiar tales about famous fossil hunters and focus on relatively little-known episodes in the discovery and interpretation (from both a scientific and an artistic point of view) of dinosaurs and other inhabitants of the Mesozoic world. They cover a long time span, from the beginnings of modern scientific palaeontology in the 1700s to the present, and deal with many parts of the world, from the Yorkshire coast to Central India, from Bavaria to the Sahara. The characters in these stories include professional palaeontologists and geologists (some of them well-known, others quite obscure), explorers, amateur fossil collectors, and artists, linked together by their interest in Mesozoic creatures.

Author : Robert T. Bakker
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 9780375859588

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The Big Golden Book of Dinosaurs by Robert T. Bakker Pdf

Renowned paleontologist Robert T. Bakker and award-winning paleoartist Luis V. Rey combine forces in this oversized picture book about the evolution of dinosaurs. From the conquest of land by dino ancestor Acanthostega during the Devonian Period, through the mass die-off of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period, Bakker and Rey take readers on a safari through time while paying subtle homage to the 1960 Giant Golden Book Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Reptiles that inspired them both as young dinophiles. With stops along the way to look at monster bugs, ferocious fin-backs, fluffy dinosaurs, sea monsters and the 12-year-old girl who discovered them, dinosaur orchestras, tickling tyrannosaurs, and much, much more, this is a journey readers will never forget. It's a perfect gift for young dinosaur lovers as well as adult fans of Dr. Bakker and Luis Rey!"

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101152454

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Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling novelist, a stunning historical novel that follows the story of Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two extraordinary 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot ammonites and other fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community on edge, the townspeople to gossip, and the scientific world alight. After enduring bitter cold, thunderstorms, and landslips, her challenges only grow when she falls in love with an impossible man. Mary soon finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth, a middle-class spinster who shares her passion for scouring the beaches. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty, mutual appreciation, and barely suppressed envy, but ultimately turns out to be their greatest asset. From the author of At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl With a Pearl Earring comes this incredible story of two remarkable women and their voyage of discovery.