Author: Kieran D. O'Hara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107176182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Approximately 200 years of the history of the development of the study of geology.
A Brief History of Geology
Author: Kieran D. O'Hara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107176182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Approximately 200 years of the history of the development of the study of geology.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107176182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Approximately 200 years of the history of the development of the study of geology.
A Brief History of Geology
Author: Kieran D. O'Hara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316812146
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Geology as a science has a fascinating and controversial history. Kieran D. O'Hara's book provides a brief and accessible account of the major events in the history of geology over the last two hundred years, from early theories of Earth structure during the Reformation, through major controversies over the age of the Earth during the Industrial Revolution, to the more recent twentieth-century development of plate tectonic theory, and on to current ideas concerning the Anthropocene. Most chapters include a short 'text box' providing more technical and detailed elaborations on selected topics. The book also includes a history of the geology of the Moon, a topic not normally included in books on the history of geology. The book will appeal to students of Earth science, researchers in geology who wish to learn more about the history of their subject, and general readers interested in the history of science.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316812146
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Geology as a science has a fascinating and controversial history. Kieran D. O'Hara's book provides a brief and accessible account of the major events in the history of geology over the last two hundred years, from early theories of Earth structure during the Reformation, through major controversies over the age of the Earth during the Industrial Revolution, to the more recent twentieth-century development of plate tectonic theory, and on to current ideas concerning the Anthropocene. Most chapters include a short 'text box' providing more technical and detailed elaborations on selected topics. The book also includes a history of the geology of the Moon, a topic not normally included in books on the history of geology. The book will appeal to students of Earth science, researchers in geology who wish to learn more about the history of their subject, and general readers interested in the history of science.
A Brief History of the U.S. Geological Survey
Author: Mary C. Rabbitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
History of Geoscience
Author: W. Mayer
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 1786202697
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
The study of the Earth’s origin, its composition, the processes that changed and shaped it over time and the fossils preserved in rocks, have occupied enquiring minds from ancient times. The contributions in this volume trace the history of ideas and the research of scholars in a wide range of geological disciplines that have paved the way to our present-day understanding and knowledge of the physical nature of our planet and the diversity of life that inhabited it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the International Commission on the History of Geology (INHIGEO), the book features contributions that give insights into its establishment and progress. In other sections authors reflect on the value of studying the history of the geosciences and provide accounts of early investigations in fields as diverse as tectonics, volcanology, geomorphology, vertebrate palaeontology and petroleum geology. Other papers discuss the establishment of geological surveys, the contribution of women to geology and biographical sketches of noted scholars in various fields of geoscience.
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 1786202697
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
The study of the Earth’s origin, its composition, the processes that changed and shaped it over time and the fossils preserved in rocks, have occupied enquiring minds from ancient times. The contributions in this volume trace the history of ideas and the research of scholars in a wide range of geological disciplines that have paved the way to our present-day understanding and knowledge of the physical nature of our planet and the diversity of life that inhabited it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the International Commission on the History of Geology (INHIGEO), the book features contributions that give insights into its establishment and progress. In other sections authors reflect on the value of studying the history of the geosciences and provide accounts of early investigations in fields as diverse as tectonics, volcanology, geomorphology, vertebrate palaeontology and petroleum geology. Other papers discuss the establishment of geological surveys, the contribution of women to geology and biographical sketches of noted scholars in various fields of geoscience.
History of geology and pal?ontology
Author: K.A. von Zittel
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1178327477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
With thirteen portraits
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1178327477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
With thirteen portraits
Origin and Evolution of Earth
Author: Kent C. Condie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Examples are the nature of Earth's oldest rocks, the origin of continents, extraterrestrial impact and mass extinctions of organisms, rates of organic evolution, and recent developments on the origin of humans.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Examples are the nature of Earth's oldest rocks, the origin of continents, extraterrestrial impact and mass extinctions of organisms, rates of organic evolution, and recent developments on the origin of humans.
Companion to the History of Modern Science
Author: G N Cantor
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134977514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1095
Book Description
* A descriptive and analytical guide to the development of Western science from AD 1500, and to the diversity and course of that development first in Europe and later across the world * Presented in clear, non-technical language * Extensive indexes of Subjects and Names `Indeed a companion volume whose 67 essays give pleasure and instruction ... an ambitious and successful work.' - Times Literary Supplement `This work is an essential resource for libraries everywhere. For specialist science libraries willing to keep just one encyclopaedic guide to history, for undergraduate libraries seeking to provide easily accessible information, for the devisers of university curricula, for the modern social historian or even the eclectic scientist taking a break from simply making history, this is the book for you.' - Times Higher Education Supplement `A pleasure to read with a carefully chosen typeface, well organized pages and ample margins ... it is very easy to find one's way around. This is a book which will be consulted widely.' - Technovation `This is a commendably easy book to use.' - British Journal of the History of Science `Scholars from other areas entering this field, students taking the vertical approach and teachers coming from any direction cannot fail to find this an invaluable text.' - History of Science Journal
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134977514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1095
Book Description
* A descriptive and analytical guide to the development of Western science from AD 1500, and to the diversity and course of that development first in Europe and later across the world * Presented in clear, non-technical language * Extensive indexes of Subjects and Names `Indeed a companion volume whose 67 essays give pleasure and instruction ... an ambitious and successful work.' - Times Literary Supplement `This work is an essential resource for libraries everywhere. For specialist science libraries willing to keep just one encyclopaedic guide to history, for undergraduate libraries seeking to provide easily accessible information, for the devisers of university curricula, for the modern social historian or even the eclectic scientist taking a break from simply making history, this is the book for you.' - Times Higher Education Supplement `A pleasure to read with a carefully chosen typeface, well organized pages and ample margins ... it is very easy to find one's way around. This is a book which will be consulted widely.' - Technovation `This is a commendably easy book to use.' - British Journal of the History of Science `Scholars from other areas entering this field, students taking the vertical approach and teachers coming from any direction cannot fail to find this an invaluable text.' - History of Science Journal
New Publications of the Geological Survey
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Geologists and the History of Geology: Bibliography
Author: William Antony S. Sarjeant
Publisher: Malabar, Fla. : Krieger Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Publisher: Malabar, Fla. : Krieger Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description