Bursting the limits of time: the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of revolution
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Main Author: Rudwick, M. J. S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press ©2005
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:"Based on the Tarner lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1996."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-699) and index
Understanding the earth -- Naturalists, philosophers, and others -- Sciences of the earth -- The theory of the earth -- Transposing history into the earth -- Problems with fossils -- Reconstructing geohistory -- A new science of "geology"? -- Denizens of a former world -- Geognosy enriched into geohistory -- The gateway to the deep past -- Earth's last revolution
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-thousand-year-old planet was only laid to rest during a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this relatively brief period, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing pe
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 708 pages)
ISBN:0226731111
0226731138
0226731146
9780226731117
9780226731131
9780226731148

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