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Author : James Hutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:895192126
Author : James Hutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Geology
ISBN : 0907182267
Author : James Hutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN : UCD:31175013077725
Author : James Hutton,John Playfair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Geology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032287216
Author : James Hutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0028462203
Author : Dennis Dean
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781501733994
In James Hutton and the History of Geology, Dennis R. Dean provides a more accurate and complete account of Hutton's major geological writings than any that has hitherto appeared. He examines the growth and development of Hutton's thought in the light of his training and experience in medicine, agriculture, and philosophy, locating him within the intellectual milieux of Edinburgh at the height of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Author : David Goldsmith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781633888319
On Solid Ground illustrates what geologists know about the earth by telling the stories of the people who made major geological discoveries. It also chronicles the doubters and nay-sayers who have worked so hard to undermine our understanding of the earth. Each chapter of this book contains three things: the human story of a geologic controversy, an explanation of why geologists are so sure about the right answer to that controversy, and a short discussion of the logical fallacies being used by those still unwilling to accept geologic expertise.
Author : David Roger Oldroyd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674883829
Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rocks and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, seismology, theories of mountain building, and geochemistry.
Author : Christoph Bode,Jacqueline Labbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317324317
Romantic Localities explores the ways in which Romantic-period writers of varying nationalities responded to languages, landscapes – both geographical and metaphorical – and literatures.
Author : James Hutton
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 1897799780
Author : James Hutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Earth
ISBN : UCSD:31822007246580
Author : James Hutton
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This ebook is comprised of Hutton's 1788 paper 'Theory of the Earth', read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, as well as Volumes 1 and 2 of his book of the same name. Although his books, filled with long quotes in French, make difficult reading, Hutton deserves to be better known as one of the makers of the modern view of the Earth.
Author : Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226731148
In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a six-thousand-year-old planet was only laid to rest during a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this relatively brief period, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud did, Bursting the Limits of Time is a herculean effort by one of the world's foremost experts on the history of geology and paleontology to sketch this historicization of the natural world in the age of revolution. Addressing this intellectual revolution for the first time, Rudwick examines the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together. He explores who was responsible for the discovery of the earth's history, refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth, and details how the study of the history of the earth helped define a new branch of science called geology. Rooting his analysis in a detailed study of primary sources, Rudwick emphasizes the lasting importance of field- and museum-based research of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bursting the Limits of Time, the culmination of more than three decades of research, is the first detailed account of this monumental phase in the history of science.
Author : Martin Gorst
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780767908443
The untold story of the religious figures, philosophers, astronomers, geologists, physicists, and mathematicians who, for more than four hundred years, have pursued the answer to a fundamental question at the intersection of science and religion: When did the universe begin? The moment of the universe's conception is one of science's Holy Grails, investigated by some of the most brilliant and inquisitive minds across the ages. Few were more committed than Bishop James Ussher, who lost his sight during the fifty years it took him to compose his Annals of all known history, now famous only for one date: 4004 b.c. Ussher's date for the creation of the world was spectacularly inaccurate, but that didn't stop it from being so widely accepted that it was printed in early twentieth-century Bibles. As writer and documentary filmmaker Martin Gorst vividly illustrates in this captivating, character-driven narrative, theology let Ussher down just as it had thwarted Theophilus of Antioch and many before him. Geology was next to fail the test of time. In the eighteenth century, naturalist Comte de Buffon, working out the rate at which the earth was supposed to have cooled, came up with an age of 74,832 years, even though he suspected this was far too low. Biology then had a go in the hands of fossil hunter Johann Scheuchzer, who alleged to have found a specimen of a man drowned at the time of Noah's flood. Regrettably it was only the imprint of a large salamander. And so science inched forward via Darwinism, thermodynamics, radioactivity, and, most recently, the astronomers at the controls of the Hubble space telescope, who put the beginning of time at 13.4 billion years ago (give or take a billion). Taking the reader into the laboratories and salons of scholars and scientists, visionaries and eccentrics, Measuring Eternity is an engagingly written account of an epic, often quixotic quest, of how individuals who dedicated their lives to solving an enduring mystery advanced our knowledge of the universe.
Author : Patrick Wyse Jackson,Geological Society of London
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 186239234X
Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel focuses on the complexities of geological exploration and will be of particular interest to earth scientists, historians of science and to the general reader interested in science.