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15 produkter
Earth's Deep History
How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters
Häftad, 2016
299 kr
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Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for …
Meaning of Fossils
Episodes in the History of Palaeontology
E-bok, 2008
777 kr
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"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 …
Scenes from Deep Time
Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World
E-bok, 1995
664 kr
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How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin''s Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were …
Great Devonian Controversy
The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists
E-bok, 2011
1137 kr
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"Arguably the best work to date in the history of geology."—David R. Oldroyd, Science "After a superficial first glance, most readers of good will and broad knowledge might dismiss [this book] as being too much about too little. They would be making one of the biggest mistakes in their intellectual …
Great Devonian Controversy
The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists
Häftad, 1988
520 kr
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"Arguably the best work to date in the history of geology."—David R. Oldroyd, Science"After a superficial first glance, most readers of good will and broad knowledge might dismiss [this book] as being too much about too little. They would be making one of the biggest mistakes in their intellectual …
Meaning of Fossils
Episodes in the History of Palaeontology
Häftad, 1985
358 kr
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"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 …
Scenes from Deep Time
Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World
Häftad, 1995
307 kr
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How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the years prior to the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species" to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by fossil discoveries, were the first …
Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes
New Translations and Interpretations of the Primary Texts
Häftad, 1998
461 kr
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Until quite recently, French zoologist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) opposed the biological theory of evolution, and championed the geological theory of catastrophism; but his research on fossils helped form and bring credibility to geology and palaeontology, and recent research has proved that his …
Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes
New Translations and Interpretations of the Primary Texts
E-bok, 2008
758 kr
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French zoologist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) helped form and bring credibility to geology and paleontology. Here Martin J. S. Rudwick provides the first modern translation of Cuvier''s essential writings on fossils and catastrophes and links these translated texts together with his own insightful …
Bursting the Limits of Time
The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution
Häftad, 2007
375 kr
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During a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth - and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Bursting the Limits of Time is a herculean effort by one of the world's foremost experts on the …
Bursting the Limits of Time
The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution
E-bok, 2008
727 kr
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A masterful, authoritative account of the scientists and discoveries that enabled us to understand the age of the earth 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 …
Worlds Before Adam
The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
Inbunden, 2008
700 kr
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The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth, Martin J. S. Rudwick's "Worlds Before Adam" picks up where his celebrated "Bursting the Limits of Time" leaves off. Rudwick takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain's …
Worlds Before Adam
The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
Häftad, 2010
426 kr
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The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth, Martin J. S. Rudwick's "Worlds Before Adam" picks up where his celebrated "Bursting the Limits of Time" leaves off. Rudwick takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain's …
Worlds Before Adam
The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
E-bok, 2010
928 kr
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth—and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about this vast timescale. But despite this apparent …
Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes
New Translations and Interpretations of the Primary Texts
Inbunden, 1997
772 kr
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Until quite recently, French zoologist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) opposed the biological theory of evolution, and championed the geological theory of catastrophism; but his careful research on fossils helped form and bring credibility to geology and palaeontology, and recent research has proved …
