Author: Yngvar W. IsachsenPublisher: New York State Museum
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A Geological History of Manhattan Or New York Island
Author: Issachar CozzensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Geology of New York
Author: Yngvar W. IsachsenPublisher: New York State Museum
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Geology of New-York
Author: William W. MatherGeology of New York City and Its Vicinity
Author: Chester Albert ReedsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Geology Under Cities
Author: Robert Ferguson LeggetPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 081374105X
Category : Engineering geology
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
The nine papers in this volume cover the geology beneath Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Edmonton, Kansas City, New Orleans, New York City, Toronto, and St. Paul/Minneapolis, and present methods of data gathering that could be used in most cities.
The Geology of New York City and Environs
Author: Christopher J. SchuberthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Roadside Geology of New York
Author: Bradford B. VanDiverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Maps, cross-sections, diagrams, photos, and text describe the geologic foundations of the state of New York.
The Geology of New York City and Vicinity
Author: Chester Albert ReedsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Geology of New-York
Author: William W. MatherDeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton
Author: David I. SpanagelPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421411040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
David I. Spanagel explores the origins of American geology and the culture that helped give it rise, focusing on Amos Eaton, the educator and amateur scientist who founded the Rensselaer School, and on DeWitt Clinton, the masterful politician who led the movement for the Erie Canal. DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton shows how a cluster of assumptions about the peculiar landscape and entrepreneurial spirit of New York came to define the Empire State. Spanagel sheds light on a particularly innovative and fruitful period of interplay among science, politics, art, and literature in American history. New Yorkers' romantic views of natural majesty and ideas about improving the land influenced scientific ideas and other features of contemporary culture. The life of Amos Eaton provides a lens through which readers gain fresh awareness of scientific knowledge, economic planning, and cultural values during the first half of the nineteenth century. Scientists of the time were fascinated by questions such as: How old is the earth? When did time begin? How might the passage of time have shaped and reshaped the original landscape? In the United States, New Yorkers of the mid-1820s mounted the most concerted effort to find answers to these large questions of natural history. Both geographic conditions and historical forces led Amos Eaton and his wealthy patron Stephen Van Rensselaer to open the Rensselaer School at Troy, New York, in 1826. Eaton thus gave America its first generation of professional scientists, many of whom formed professional organizations and standards of practice still active today. Deeply researched, this book will interest historians of nineteenth-century American arts and science, politics, and technological development.