Martin J. S. Rudwick

The New Science of Geology (eBook, ePUB)

Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Revolution

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The science of geology was constructed in the decades around 1800 from earlier practices that had been significantly different in their cognitive goals. In the studies collected here Martin Rudwick traces how it came to be recognised as a new kind of natural science, because it was constituted around the idea that the natural world had its own hist

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000948424
• Artikelnr.: 67774140

Autorenporträt

Martin J.S. Rudwick is Professor Emeritus of History of Science, University of California San Diego, USA and University of Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Bibliography
Earth-History and the History of Geology: Geologists' time: a brief history
The shape and meaning of earth history
Minerals, strata and fossils
The emergence of a new science
The emergence of a visual language for geological science, 1760-1840. Cuvier and Earth-History: Jean-André de Luc and nature's chronology
Cuvier and Brongniart, William Smith, and the reconstruction of geohistory
Researches on fossil bones: Georges Cuvier and the collecting of international allies
Georges Cuvier's paper museum of fossil bones. Geology in the Age of Lyell: Encounters with Adam, or at least the hyaenas
19th-century visual representations of the deep past
A year in the life of Adam Sedgwick and company, geologists
Travel, travel, travel: geological fieldwork in the 1830s
The group construction of scientific knowledge: gentlemen-specialists and the Devonian controversy
The glacial theory
Index.