Author: Margaret Hindle HazenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Emergence of Geology in Eighteenth-century America
Author: Margaret Hindle HazenGeology and Religion
Author: Martina Kölbl-EbertPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862392694
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The book discusses this long-standing relationship from a historical point of view, which in the past has been sometimes indifferent, sometimes fruitful and sometimes full of conflict. The relationship continues well into the present. While Christian fundamentalists attack evolution and related palaeontological findings as well as the geological evidence of the age of the Earth, mainstream theologians strive for a fruitful dialogue between science and religion. Much of what is written and discussed today can only be understood, when the historical perspective is added. This book considers the following topics: the development of geology from mythological approaches towards the European Enlightenment, Biblical or Geological Flood and the age of the Earth, geology within 'religious' organizations, biographical case studies of geological clerics and religious geologists, religion and evolution, historical aspects of creationism and its motives.
Revising the Revisions
Author: A. M. Celâl ŞengörPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813712165
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
"James Hutton's 'Theory of the Earth,' first published in 1785, was considered completely new by his contemporaries, different from anything that preceded it, and widely discussed both in Hutton's own country and abroad-from St. Petersburg through Europe to New York. Yet a recent trend among some historians of geology is to characterize Hutton's work as already behind the times in the late eighteenth century and remembered only because some later geologists found it convenient to represent it as a precursor of the prevailing opinions of the day. Painstakingly researched, richly referenced, and full of interesting stories, this Memoir shatters that line of thinking and restores Hutton's standing as the father of modern geology, his ideas fully relevant to the geological problems of his day"
Thinking about the Earth
Author: David Roger OldroydPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674883826
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
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.
The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Author: Gary D. RosenbergPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813712033
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Bursting the Limits of Time
Author: M. J. S. RudwickPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226731138
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 733
Book Description
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 history of geology and paleontology to illuminate this scientific breakthrough that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus and Darwin did. Rudwick examines here 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. Bursting the Limits of Time is the first detailed account of this monumental phase in the history of science. "Bursting the Limits of Time is a massive work and is quite simply a masterpiece of science history. . . . The book should be obligatory for every geology and history of science library, and is a highly recommended companion for every civilized geologist who can carry an extra 2.4 kg in his rucksack."--Stephen Moorbath, Nature
Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).
Author: James HuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmogony
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Museums at the Forefront of the History and Philosophy of Geology
Author: Gary D. RosenbergPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813725356
Category : Geological museums
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Information on museum activities around the world.
American History in Transition
Author: Yoshinari YamaguchiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004424318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In American History in Transition, Yoshinari Yamaguchi provides fresh insights into early efforts in American history writing, ranging from Jeremy Belknap’s Massachusetts Historical Society to Emma Willard’s geographic history, and Francis Parkman’s history of deep time to Henry Adams’s thermodynamic history.
The Origins of Geology in Italy
Author: Gian Battista VaiPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813724112
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description