Patrons Of Paleontology

Author : Jane P. Davidson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253033567

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Patrons of Paleontology by Jane P. Davidson Pdf

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In Patrons of Paleontology, Jane Davidson explores the motivation behind this rush to fund exploration, arguing that eagerness to discover strategic resources like coal deposits was further fueled by patrons who had a genuine passion for paleontology and the fascinating creatures that were being unearthed. These early decades of government support shaped the way the discipline grew, creating practices and enabling discoveries that continue to affect paleontology today.

Author : Jane P. Davidson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253033581

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Patrons of Paleontology by Jane P. Davidson Pdf

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In Patrons of Paleontology, Jane Davidson explores the motivation behind this rush to fund exploration, arguing that eagerness to discover strategic resources like coal deposits was further fueled by patrons who had a genuine passion for paleontology and the fascinating creatures that were being unearthed. These early decades of government support shaped the way the discipline grew, creating practices and enabling discoveries that continue to affect paleontology today.

Author : Ronald Singer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1435 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1884964966

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Encyclopedia of Paleontology: A-L by Ronald Singer Pdf

"This resource is ideal for patrons seeking information about the principles and methods of paleontology, paleontology in different regions of the world, and the primary researchers in the field. Dinosaurs as well as all types of animals, plants, and organisms discovered in fossils are included."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.

Author : Renee M. Clary,Gary D. Rosenberg,Dallas C. Evans
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813712185

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The Evolution of Paleontological Art by Renee M. Clary,Gary D. Rosenberg,Dallas C. Evans Pdf

"This volume samples the history of art about fossils-and the visual conceptualization of their significance-starting with biblical and mythological depictions, extending to renditions of ancient life in long-vanished habitats, and on to a modern understanding that paleoart conveys lessons for the betterment of the human condition. Twenty-nine chapters illustrate how art about fossils has come to be a significant teaching tool not only about evolution of past life, but also about conservation of our planet for the benefit of future generations"--

Author : Paul D. Brinkman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226074733

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The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush by Paul D. Brinkman Pdf

The so-called “Bone Wars” of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinosaur rush, which took place around the turn of the twentieth century, brought the prehistoric beasts back to life. These later expeditions—which involved new competitors hailing from leading natural history museums in New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh—yielded specimens that would be reconstructed into the colossal skeletons that thrill visitors today in museum halls across the country. Reconsidering the fossil speculation, the museum displays, and the media frenzy that ushered dinosaurs into the American public consciousness, Paul Brinkman takes us back to the birth of dinomania, the modern obsession with all things Jurassic. Featuring engaging and colorful personalities and motivations both altruistic and ignoble, The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush shows that these later expeditions were just as foundational—if not more so—to the establishment of paleontology and the budding collections of museums than the more famous Cope and Marsh treks. With adventure, intrigue, and rivalry, this is science at its most swashbuckling.

Author : Karen A. Rader,Victoria E.M. Cain
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226079837

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Life on Display by Karen A. Rader,Victoria E.M. Cain Pdf

Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums’ shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle profound changes in these exhibitions—and the institutions that housed them—between 1910 and 1990, ultimately offering new perspectives on the history of museums, science, and science education. Rader and Cain explain why science and natural history museums began to welcome new audiences between the 1900s and the 1920s and chronicle the turmoil that resulted from the introduction of new kinds of biological displays. They describe how these displays of life changed dramatically once again in the 1930s and 1940s, as museums negotiated changing, often conflicting interests of scientists, educators, and visitors. The authors then reveal how museum staffs, facing intense public and scientific scrutiny, experimented with wildly different definitions of life science and life science education from the 1950s through the 1980s. The book concludes with a discussion of the influence that corporate sponsorship and blockbuster economics wielded over science and natural history museums in the century’s last decades. A vivid, entertaining study of the ways science and natural history museums shaped and were shaped by understandings of science and public education in the twentieth-century United States, Life on Display will appeal to historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture, as well as museum practitioners and general readers.

Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231536905

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Bringing Fossils to Life by Donald R. Prothero Pdf

One of the leading textbooks in its field, Bringing Fossils to Life applies paleobiological principles to the fossil record while detailing the evolutionary history of major plant and animal phyla. It incorporates current research from biology, ecology, and population genetics, bridging the gap between purely theoretical paleobiological textbooks and those that describe only invertebrate paleobiology and that emphasize cataloguing live organisms instead of dead objects. For this third edition Donald R. Prothero has revised the art and research throughout, expanding the coverage of invertebrates and adding a discussion of new methodologies and a chapter on the origin and early evolution of life.

Author : Margaret A. Johnston,James McChristal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (Colo.)
ISBN : UOM:39015050264723

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Partners in Paleontology by Margaret A. Johnston,James McChristal Pdf

Author : Martin J.S. Rudwick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226148984

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The Meaning of Fossils by Martin J.S. Rudwick Pdf

"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field."—Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology "Rudwick has not merely written the first book-length history of palaeontology in the English language; he has written a very intelligent one. . . . His accounts of sources are rounded and organic: he treats the structure of arguments as Cuvier handled fossil bones."—Roy S. Porter, History of Science

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015065458419

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America, History and Life by Anonim Pdf

Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCSD:31822032667131

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Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Augustine Cushman,Raymond Cecil Moore,John Bernard Reeside,Charles Wythe Cooke,Norman Dennis Newell,James Marvin Weller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Fossils
ISBN : MINN:319510005978619

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Journal of Paleontology by Joseph Augustine Cushman,Raymond Cecil Moore,John Bernard Reeside,Charles Wythe Cooke,Norman Dennis Newell,James Marvin Weller Pdf

Vols. 7-10, 12-13, 15-17 include section "Bibliography and index to new genera, species and varieties of Foraminifera" (varies) by H. E. Thalmann.

Author : Jim Ottaviani
Publisher : G.T. Labs
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0966010663

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Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards by Jim Ottaviani Pdf

Contains a graphic novel that presents a fictionalized historical tale of two late-nineteenth century scientists who fight over the discovery of dinosaur bones.

Author : Chris Manias
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822989943

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The Age of Mammals by Chris Manias Pdf

When people today hear “paleontology,” they immediately think of dinosaurs. But for much of the history of the discipline, dramatic demonstrations of the history of life focused on the developmental history of mammals. The Age of Mammals examines how nineteenth-century scholars, writers, artists, and public audiences understood the animals they regarded as being at the summit of life. For them, mammals were crucial for understanding the formation (and possibly the future) of the natural world. Yet, as Chris Manias reveals, this combined with more troubling notions: that seemingly promising creatures had been swept aside in the “struggle for life,” or that modern biodiversity was impoverished compared to previous eras. Why some prehistoric creatures, such as the saber-toothed cat and ground sloth, had become extinct, while others seemed to have been the ancestors of familiar animals like elephants and horses, was a question loaded with cultural assumptions, ambiguity, and trepidation. How humans related to deep developmental processes, and whether “the Age of Man” was qualitatively different from the Age of Mammals, led to reflections on humanity’s place within the natural world. With this book, Manias considers the cultural resonance of mammal paleontology from an international perspective—how reconstructions of the deep past of fossil mammals across the world conditioned new understandings of nature and the current environment.

Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher : New York : Science History Publications
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822012214979

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Fossils and Progress by Peter J. Bowler Pdf