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CONTENTS
List of
illustrations
xiii
Acknowledgments
xix
A note on footnotes
xxiii
Introduction
ι
Time and geohistory
·
Historical parameters
·
Historicizing the earth
■
Text and illustrations
·
Maps of knowledge
_PARTJ UNDERSTANDING THE EARTH
ι
Naturalists, philosophers, and others
¡5
1.1
A savant on top of the world
15
First ascents of Mont Blanc
·
Science on the summit
·
Return to civilization
·
Conclusion
1.2
The Republic of Letters and its supporters
22
Savants, professional and amateur
■
The Republic of Letters
·
A variety of supporters
·
Conclusion
1.3
Places of natural knowledge
37
Laboratories and museums
·
Savants in the field
·
The social life of savants
·
Scientific publication
·
Conclusion
1.4
Maps of natural knowledge
48
The literary and the philosophical
·
Natural history and natural philosophy
·
Philosophy and theology
·
Conclusion
[
УП
1
Contents
Sciences of the earth
59
2.1
Mineralogy as a science of specimens
59
Minerals and other fossils
■
Identification and classification
·
Fossils of organic origin
·
Fossil localities
·
Prize specimens
·
Conclusion
2.2
Physical geography as a spatial science
71
Huge solid facts
·
The primacy of fieldwork
·
Proxy pictures
·
Maps as instruments
·
Conclusion
2.3
Geognosy as a structural science
84
The mining context
·
Structures and sequences
·
Primaries and Secondaries
■
Sequences of
Gebirge ·
Fossils in geognosy
·
Conclusion
2.4
Earth physics as a causal science
99
The "physics" of specimens
·
The "physics" of physical geography
·
The "physics" of geognostic structures
■
The "physics" of rock formations
·
Conclusion
2.5
The question of time
115
The short
rimescale
versus eternalism
·
Volcanoes, valleys, and strata
■
Estimates of the
rimescale
·
Encounters with theologians
·
Conclusion
The theory of the earth
133
3.1
Geotheory as a scientific genre
133
The meaning of "geology"
·
The goals of geotheory
·
Conclusion
3.2
Buffon's cooling globe
139
Buffon's first geotheory
·
Nature's epochs
·
The earth's timescale
·
Conclusion
3.3
De
Luc's worlds ancient and modern
150
The "Christian
philosophe"
·
De
Luc's binary system
■
Natural measures of time
·
Conclusion
3.4
Hutton's eternal earth machine
i¡8
A deistic geotheory
·
Cyclic processes
·
A theory confirmed by fieldwork
·
Time and eternity
·
Conclusion
3.5
The standard model of falling sea levels
172
The multiplicity of geotheories
· Neptunist
geotheory
·
Conclusion
Transposing history into the earth
181
4.1
The varieties of history
і&г
The diversification of history
·
Chronology and biblical history
·
Chorographers and antiquarians
·
Herculaneum and Pompeii
■
Conclusion
4.2
Fossils as nature's documents
194
Human history and its natural records
·
The natural history of fossils
·
Fossils and the earth's revolutions
■
Conclusion
4.3
Volcanoes and nature's epochs
203
The making of a physical geographer
·
The volcanoes of
Auvergne
■
Epochs of volcanic activity
·
A lake on the site of Paris
·
Conclusion
Contents
[
їх
]
4.4 Rock formations
as nature's archives
214
The volcanoes of
Vivarais
·
Nature's erudite historian
·
Censors and critics
·
Exporting geohistory to Russia
·
Conclusion
4.5
Global geohistory
227
Causal processes and geotheories
·
The place of contingency
·
Saussure as a
geotheorist
·
De Luc as a
geohistorian
·
Conclusion
5
Problems with fossils
23$
5.1
The ancient world of nature
239
The deep past as a foreign country?
·
Fossils and geohistory
·
Migration and transmutation
·
Conclusion
5.2
Relics of former seas
246
Vanished shellfish
·
Living fossils
·
Fossil fish and possible whales
·
Explaining the former world
■
Conclusion
5.3
Witnesses of former continents
261
Fossil plants
·
Large fossil bones
·
The "Ohio animal"
·
Giant elks and bears
·
Conclusion
5.4
The antiquity of man
275
Humans in geohistory
·
Texts and bones
·
History from artifacts
·
Conclusion
Interlude: From survey to narrative
28g
PART II RECONSTRUCTING GEOHISTORY
6
A NEW SCIENCE OF "GEOLOGY"?
295
6.1
Revolutions in nature and society
(1789-91) 295
Meanings of revolution
·
Blumenbach's "total revolution"
·
Montlosier's continuous revolution
■
Geotheory as a flourishing genre
■
Conclusion
6.2
Geotheory as geohistory
(1790-93) 305
De
Luc's new system
■
A differentiated "former world"
■
The role of fossil evidence
·
A critique of Hutton
·
Conclusion
6.3
Theorizing in a time of trouble
(1790-94) 315
Geotheories and focal problems
■
Dolomieus mega-tsunamis
■
Dolomieu on the Nile delta
·
The sciences under the Terror
·
Conclusion
6.4
Geotheory politicized
(1793-95) 326
De
Luc and
Blumenbach ■
Cultured despisers of religion
·
The politics of Genesis
·
Conclusion
6.5
"Geology" redefined
(1794-97) 33/
The sciences after
Thermidor
·
Desmaresťs
survey of geotheories
·
La Métherje's
geotheory
·
Saussure's geotheory and Agenda
·
Dolomieu on "geology"
■
Conclusion
Contents
Denizens of a former world
349
7.1
A mushroom in the field of savants
(1794-96) 349
Fossil bones as a focal problem
·
The young Cuvier
·
The megatherium
·
The mammoth
■
Conclusion
7.2
Cuvier opens his campaign
(1797-99) 364
Cave bears and fossil rhinos
·
Dolomieu and
de Luc
as Cuvier's allies
·
Cuvier's research program
·
Hostile critics
·
Jefferson's megalonix
·
Conclusion
7.3
The Napoleon of fossil bones
(1798-1800) 376
Savants in wartime
·
Cuvier and the First Consul
·
Cuvier's network of informants
■
Cuvier's international appeal
■
Conclusion
7.4
Lamarck's alternative
(1800-1802) 388
The threat of transformism
·
The response to Cuvier's appeal
·
Mummified animals from Egypt
·
Lamarck's Parisian fossils
·
Conclusion
7.5
Enlarging a fossil menagerie
(1802-4) 399
A peaceful interlude
·
A cumulative case for extinction
■
Earlier and stranger mammals
·
Conclusion
Geognosy enriched into geohistory
417
8.1
The "archaeology" of the earth
(1801-4)
4V/
Geognosy and fossils
·
Werner and geohistory
·
Cuvier and the history of life
·
Blumenbach's geohistory
·
A former world of plants
·
Conclusion
8.2
The order of the strata
(1801-6) 431
The isolation of Britain
·
Smith the surveyor
·
Smith as a mapmaker
·
Smith as a geognost
■
Conclusion
8.3
Timescales of geohistory
(1803-5) 445
Cuvier's Parisian lectures
·
The politics of the timescale
·
The challenge of Lamarck
·
Cuvier's middle way
·
Conclusion
8.4
A new agenda for geology
(1806-8) 456
Andre's geotheory
·
The progress of the sciences
·
The Geological Society
·
Conclusion
The gateway to the deep past
471
9.1
The geohistory of Paris
(1802-8) 471
Brongniart as a geognost
·
Geognosy of the Paris Basin
·
Freshwater formations
·
Environmental geohistory
·
Conclusion
9.2
Consolidating geohistory
(1808-12) 484
Beyond the Paris Basin
·
Controversial freshwater fossils
■
The Parisian case in full
·
Reactions outside France
·
Parkinson's new look
·
Conclusion
9.3
Cuvier's Fossil Bones
(1809—14)
49c
Research on fossil reptiles
·
Collected papers on fossil bones
■
Fossil bones and geohistory
·
Cuvier in English
·
Conclusion
Contents
[
χι
]
9.4
Parisian geohistory beyond Paris
(1811-14)
512
Fossils at the Geological Society
·
Webster on the Isle of Wight
·
Brocchi on the Subapennine fossils
·
Conclusion
9.5
Geognosy into "stratigraphy"
(1814-23) 529
Europe at peace
·
Brongniart on the fossil criterion
·
Smith's "stratigraphy"
·
Geology at Oxford
·
A global standard for stratigraphy
·
Conclusion
9.6
The Tertiary era established
(1816-25) 543
Brongniart in Italy
·
Prévost
on the Vienna Basin
·
Brongniart on the Tertiary era
■
Conclusion
10
Earth's last revolution
557
10.1
The interface between past and present
(1807-9) 557
The frozen mammoth
·
Borderline problems
·
Actual causes
■
Lamarck and transformism
·
Antiquarian researches
·
Conclusion
10.2
The problem of erratic blocks
(1810-14) 571
The problem posed
· Von Buch
on Alpine erratics
·
Hall's mega-tsunami
·
Conclusion
10.3
A "great and sudden revolution"
(1812-16) 585
The inadequacy of actual causes
■
The role of fossil quadrupeds
·
Transformism rejected
·
Dating the last revolution
·
An anglicized Cuvier
■
Conclusion
10.4
Britain brought back into Europe
(1813-16) 600
Buckland's Oxford lectures
·
A geological triumvirate
·
Caves and fossil bones
■
Conclusion
10.5
Tracing the geological deluge
(1816-22) 609
Making claims for geology
·
The deluge on Buckland's doorstep
·
A new theory of erratics
■
The problem of valley erosion
·
Cuvier's revised discourse
·
Conclusion
10.6
A spy hole into the past
(1821-23) 622
Kirkdalecave
·
Buckland at the Royal Society
·
Bursting the limits of time
·
Conclusion
Coda: retrospect and prospect
639
Recalling
Saussure
·
The centrality of geohistory
·
Towards modernity
Sources
653
1.
Places and specimens
2.
Manuscripts and pictures
3.
Primary printed sources
4.
Secondary printed sources
Index
701
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 her¬
culean 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. |
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CONTENTS
List of
illustrations
xiii
Acknowledgments
xix
A note on footnotes
xxiii
Introduction
ι
Time and geohistory
·
Historical parameters
·
Historicizing the earth
■
Text and illustrations
·
Maps of knowledge
_PARTJ UNDERSTANDING THE EARTH
ι
Naturalists, philosophers, and others
¡5
1.1
A savant on top of the world
15
First ascents of Mont Blanc
·
Science on the summit
·
Return to civilization
·
Conclusion
1.2
The Republic of Letters and its supporters
22
Savants, professional and amateur
■
The Republic of Letters
·
A variety of supporters
·
Conclusion
1.3
Places of natural knowledge
37
Laboratories and museums
·
Savants in the field
·
The social life of savants
·
Scientific publication
·
Conclusion
1.4
Maps of natural knowledge
48
The literary and the philosophical
·
Natural history and natural philosophy
·
Philosophy and theology
·
Conclusion
[
УП
1
Contents
Sciences of the earth
59
2.1
Mineralogy as a science of specimens
59
Minerals and other fossils
■
Identification and classification
·
Fossils of organic origin
·
Fossil localities
·
Prize specimens
·
Conclusion
2.2
Physical geography as a spatial science
71
Huge solid facts
·
The primacy of fieldwork
·
Proxy pictures
·
Maps as instruments
·
Conclusion
2.3
Geognosy as a structural science
84
The mining context
·
Structures and sequences
·
Primaries and Secondaries
■
Sequences of
Gebirge ·
Fossils in geognosy
·
Conclusion
2.4
Earth physics as a causal science
99
The "physics" of specimens
·
The "physics" of physical geography
·
The "physics" of geognostic structures
■
The "physics" of rock formations
·
Conclusion
2.5
The question of time
115
The short
rimescale
versus eternalism
·
Volcanoes, valleys, and strata
■
Estimates of the
rimescale
·
Encounters with theologians
·
Conclusion
The theory of the earth
133
3.1
Geotheory as a scientific genre
133
The meaning of "geology"
·
The goals of geotheory
·
Conclusion
3.2
Buffon's cooling globe
139
Buffon's first geotheory
·
Nature's epochs
·
The earth's timescale
·
Conclusion
3.3
De
Luc's worlds ancient and modern
150
The "Christian
philosophe"
·
De
Luc's binary system
■
Natural measures of time
·
Conclusion
3.4
Hutton's eternal earth machine
i¡8
A deistic geotheory
·
Cyclic processes
·
A theory confirmed by fieldwork
·
Time and eternity
·
Conclusion
3.5
The standard model of falling sea levels
172
The multiplicity of geotheories
· Neptunist
geotheory
·
Conclusion
Transposing history into the earth
181
4.1
The varieties of history
і&г
The diversification of history
·
Chronology and biblical history
·
Chorographers and antiquarians
·
Herculaneum and Pompeii
■
Conclusion
4.2
Fossils as nature's documents
194
Human history and its natural records
·
The natural history of fossils
·
Fossils and the earth's revolutions
■
Conclusion
4.3
Volcanoes and nature's epochs
203
The making of a physical geographer
·
The volcanoes of
Auvergne
■
Epochs of volcanic activity
·
A lake on the site of Paris
·
Conclusion
Contents
[
їх
]
4.4 Rock formations
as nature's archives
214
The volcanoes of
Vivarais
·
Nature's erudite historian
·
Censors and critics
·
Exporting geohistory to Russia
·
Conclusion
4.5
Global geohistory
227
Causal processes and geotheories
·
The place of contingency
·
Saussure as a
geotheorist
·
De Luc as a
geohistorian
·
Conclusion
5
Problems with fossils
23$
5.1
The ancient world of nature
239
The deep past as a foreign country?
·
Fossils and geohistory
·
Migration and transmutation
·
Conclusion
5.2
Relics of former seas
246
Vanished shellfish
·
Living fossils
·
Fossil fish and possible whales
·
Explaining the former world
■
Conclusion
5.3
Witnesses of former continents
261
Fossil plants
·
Large fossil bones
·
The "Ohio animal"
·
Giant elks and bears
·
Conclusion
5.4
The antiquity of man
275
Humans in geohistory
·
Texts and bones
·
History from artifacts
·
Conclusion
Interlude: From survey to narrative
28g
PART II RECONSTRUCTING GEOHISTORY
6
A NEW SCIENCE OF "GEOLOGY"?
295
6.1
Revolutions in nature and society
(1789-91) 295
Meanings of revolution
·
Blumenbach's "total revolution"
·
Montlosier's continuous revolution
■
Geotheory as a flourishing genre
■
Conclusion
6.2
Geotheory as geohistory
(1790-93) 305
De
Luc's new system
■
A differentiated "former world"
■
The role of fossil evidence
·
A critique of Hutton
·
Conclusion
6.3
Theorizing in a time of trouble
(1790-94) 315
Geotheories and focal problems
■
Dolomieus mega-tsunamis
■
Dolomieu on the Nile delta
·
The sciences under the Terror
·
Conclusion
6.4
Geotheory politicized
(1793-95) 326
De
Luc and
Blumenbach ■
Cultured despisers of religion
·
The politics of Genesis
·
Conclusion
6.5
"Geology" redefined
(1794-97) 33/
The sciences after
Thermidor
·
Desmaresťs
survey of geotheories
·
La Métherje's
geotheory
·
Saussure's geotheory and Agenda
·
Dolomieu on "geology"
■
Conclusion
Contents
Denizens of a former world
349
7.1
A mushroom in the field of savants
(1794-96) 349
Fossil bones as a focal problem
·
The young Cuvier
·
The megatherium
·
The mammoth
■
Conclusion
7.2
Cuvier opens his campaign
(1797-99) 364
Cave bears and fossil rhinos
·
Dolomieu and
de Luc
as Cuvier's allies
·
Cuvier's research program
·
Hostile critics
·
Jefferson's megalonix
·
Conclusion
7.3
The Napoleon of fossil bones
(1798-1800) 376
Savants in wartime
·
Cuvier and the First Consul
·
Cuvier's network of informants
■
Cuvier's international appeal
■
Conclusion
7.4
Lamarck's alternative
(1800-1802) 388
The threat of transformism
·
The response to Cuvier's appeal
·
Mummified animals from Egypt
·
Lamarck's Parisian fossils
·
Conclusion
7.5
Enlarging a fossil menagerie
(1802-4) 399
A peaceful interlude
·
A cumulative case for extinction
■
Earlier and stranger mammals
·
Conclusion
Geognosy enriched into geohistory
417
8.1
The "archaeology" of the earth
(1801-4)
4V/
Geognosy and fossils
·
Werner and geohistory
·
Cuvier and the history of life
·
Blumenbach's geohistory
·
A former world of plants
·
Conclusion
8.2
The order of the strata
(1801-6) 431
The isolation of Britain
·
Smith the surveyor
·
Smith as a mapmaker
·
Smith as a geognost
■
Conclusion
8.3
Timescales of geohistory
(1803-5) 445
Cuvier's Parisian lectures
·
The politics of the timescale
·
The challenge of Lamarck
·
Cuvier's middle way
·
Conclusion
8.4
A new agenda for geology
(1806-8) 456
Andre's geotheory
·
The progress of the sciences
·
The Geological Society
·
Conclusion
The gateway to the deep past
471
9.1
The geohistory of Paris
(1802-8) 471
Brongniart as a geognost
·
Geognosy of the Paris Basin
·
Freshwater formations
·
Environmental geohistory
·
Conclusion
9.2
Consolidating geohistory
(1808-12) 484
Beyond the Paris Basin
·
Controversial freshwater fossils
■
The Parisian case in full
·
Reactions outside France
·
Parkinson's new look
·
Conclusion
9.3
Cuvier's Fossil Bones
(1809—14)
49c
Research on fossil reptiles
·
Collected papers on fossil bones
■
Fossil bones and geohistory
·
Cuvier in English
·
Conclusion
Contents
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]
9.4
Parisian geohistory beyond Paris
(1811-14)
512
Fossils at the Geological Society
·
Webster on the Isle of Wight
·
Brocchi on the Subapennine fossils
·
Conclusion
9.5
Geognosy into "stratigraphy"
(1814-23) 529
Europe at peace
·
Brongniart on the fossil criterion
·
Smith's "stratigraphy"
·
Geology at Oxford
·
A global standard for stratigraphy
·
Conclusion
9.6
The Tertiary era established
(1816-25) 543
Brongniart in Italy
·
Prévost
on the Vienna Basin
·
Brongniart on the Tertiary era
■
Conclusion
10
Earth's last revolution
557
10.1
The interface between past and present
(1807-9) 557
The frozen mammoth
·
Borderline problems
·
Actual causes
■
Lamarck and transformism
·
Antiquarian researches
·
Conclusion
10.2
The problem of erratic blocks
(1810-14) 571
The problem posed
· Von Buch
on Alpine erratics
·
Hall's mega-tsunami
·
Conclusion
10.3
A "great and sudden revolution"
(1812-16) 585
The inadequacy of actual causes
■
The role of fossil quadrupeds
·
Transformism rejected
·
Dating the last revolution
·
An anglicized Cuvier
■
Conclusion
10.4
Britain brought back into Europe
(1813-16) 600
Buckland's Oxford lectures
·
A geological triumvirate
·
Caves and fossil bones
■
Conclusion
10.5
Tracing the geological deluge
(1816-22) 609
Making claims for geology
·
The deluge on Buckland's doorstep
·
A new theory of erratics
■
The problem of valley erosion
·
Cuvier's revised discourse
·
Conclusion
10.6
A spy hole into the past
(1821-23) 622
Kirkdalecave
·
Buckland at the Royal Society
·
Bursting the limits of time
·
Conclusion
Coda: retrospect and prospect
639
Recalling
Saussure
·
The centrality of geohistory
·
Towards modernity
Sources
653
1.
Places and specimens
2.
Manuscripts and pictures
3.
Primary printed sources
4.
Secondary printed sources
Index
701
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 her¬
culean 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. |
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