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  • LYELL AND DARWIN, GEOLOGISTS
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    LYELL AND DARWIN, GEOLOGISTS
    MARTIN J.S. RUDWICK
    The studies in this second volume by Martin Rudwick (the first being The New Science of Geology: Studies in the Earth Science in the Age of Reform) focus on the figures of Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin. Lyell rose to be of pivotal importance in the second quarter of the 19th century because he challenged other geologists throughout Europe by probing their methods and conclus...

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  • THE NEW SCIENCE OF GEOLOGY
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    THE NEW SCIENCE OF GEOLOGY
    MARTIN J.S. RUDWICK
    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 history. The earth had to be under...

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  • EARTH'S DEEP HISTORY
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    EARTH'S DEEP HISTORY
    MARTIN J. S. RUDWICK
    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 it collected and interpreted? And what kinds of people have sought to reconstruct ...

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  • THE GREAT DEVONIAN CONTROVERSY
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    THE GREAT DEVONIAN CONTROVERSY
    MARTIN J. S. RUDWICK
    "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 lives. . . . [It] could become one of our century's key documents in understandi...

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  • WORLDS BEFORE ADAM
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    WORLDS BEFORE ADAM
    MARTIN J. S. RUDWICK
    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 harmony between geology and Genesis, these scientists still debated a great many ques...

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  • BURSTING THE LIMITS OF TIME
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    BURSTING THE LIMITS OF TIME
    MARTIN J. S. RUDWICK
    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 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a six-t...

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  • THE MEANING OF FOSSILS
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    THE MEANING OF FOSSILS
    MARTIN J. S. RUDWICK
    "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 history of palaeontology in the English language; he has written a very intelligent...

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  • GEORGES CUVIER, FOSSIL BONES, AND GEOLOGICAL CATASTROPHES
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    GEORGES CUVIER, FOSSIL BONES, AND GEOLOGICAL CATASTROPHES
    MARTIN J. S. RUDWICK
    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 narrative and interpretive commentary. ...

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  • SCENES FROM DEEP TIME
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    SCENES FROM DEEP TIME
    MARTIN J. S. RUDWICK
    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 the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than t...

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