Author: Gideon Algernon Mantell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108021093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The first published descriptions of different dinosaur and other fossil remains from southern England, first published in 1822.
The Fossils of the South Downs
Author: Gideon Algernon Mantell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108021093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The first published descriptions of different dinosaur and other fossil remains from southern England, first published in 1822.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108021093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The first published descriptions of different dinosaur and other fossil remains from southern England, first published in 1822.
Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs
Author: Dennis R. Dean
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521420488
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs is a scholarly yet accessible biography--the first in a generation--of a pioneering dinosaur hunter and scholar. Gideon Mantell discovered the Iguanodon (a famous tale set right in this book) and several other dinosaur species, spent over twenty-five years restoring Iguanodon fossils, and helped establish the idea of an Age of Reptiles that ended with their extinction at the conclusion of the Mesozoic Era. He had significant interaction with such well-known figures as James Parkinson, Georges Cuvier, Charles Lyell, Roderick Murchison, Charles Darwin, and Richard Owen. Dennis Dean, a well-known scholar of geology and the Victorian era, here places Mantell's career in its cultural context, employing original research in archives throughout the world, including the previously unexamined Mantell family papers in New Zealand.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521420488
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs is a scholarly yet accessible biography--the first in a generation--of a pioneering dinosaur hunter and scholar. Gideon Mantell discovered the Iguanodon (a famous tale set right in this book) and several other dinosaur species, spent over twenty-five years restoring Iguanodon fossils, and helped establish the idea of an Age of Reptiles that ended with their extinction at the conclusion of the Mesozoic Era. He had significant interaction with such well-known figures as James Parkinson, Georges Cuvier, Charles Lyell, Roderick Murchison, Charles Darwin, and Richard Owen. Dennis Dean, a well-known scholar of geology and the Victorian era, here places Mantell's career in its cultural context, employing original research in archives throughout the world, including the previously unexamined Mantell family papers in New Zealand.
A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains
Author: Gideon Algernon Mantell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Organic Remains of a Former World
Author: James Parkinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780405104541
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780405104541
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain
Author: M.J. Benton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401105197
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
This volume details all British sites that have yielded fossil reptiles, describing in detail the fifty most important localities and providing an extensive bibliography of everything published on British Fossil reptiles since 1676.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401105197
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
This volume details all British sites that have yielded fossil reptiles, describing in detail the fifty most important localities and providing an extensive bibliography of everything published on British Fossil reptiles since 1676.
The Terrible Lizard
Author: Deborah Cadbury
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780805070873
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In 1812, the skeleton of a monster was discovered beneath the cliffs of Dorset, setting in motion a collision between science and religion, and among scientists eager to claim supremacy in a brand-new field. For Reverend William Buckland, an eccentric naturalist at Oxford University, the fossil remains of a creature that existed before Noah's flood inspired an attempt to prove the accuracy of the biblical record. Novelist Gideon Mantell also became obsessed with the ancient past, and eminent anatomist Richard Owen soon entered the fray, claiming credit for the discovery of the dinosaurs. In a fast-paced narrative, Terrible Lizard re-creates the bitter feud between Mantell and Owen. Revealing a strange, awesome prehistoric era, their struggle set the stage for Darwin's shattering theories -- and for controversies that still rage today.
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780805070873
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In 1812, the skeleton of a monster was discovered beneath the cliffs of Dorset, setting in motion a collision between science and religion, and among scientists eager to claim supremacy in a brand-new field. For Reverend William Buckland, an eccentric naturalist at Oxford University, the fossil remains of a creature that existed before Noah's flood inspired an attempt to prove the accuracy of the biblical record. Novelist Gideon Mantell also became obsessed with the ancient past, and eminent anatomist Richard Owen soon entered the fray, claiming credit for the discovery of the dinosaurs. In a fast-paced narrative, Terrible Lizard re-creates the bitter feud between Mantell and Owen. Revealing a strange, awesome prehistoric era, their struggle set the stage for Darwin's shattering theories -- and for controversies that still rage today.
The Medals of Creation
Author: Gideon Algernon Mantell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians
Author: Richard Moody
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862393110
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The discovery of dinosaurs and other large extinct saurians - a term under which the Victorians commonly lumped ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and their kin - makes exciting reading and has caught the attention of palaeontologists, historians of science and the general public alike. The papers in this collection go beyond the familiar tales about famous fossil hunters and focus on relatively little-known episodes in the discovery and interpretation (from both a scientific and an artistic point of view) of dinosaurs and other inhabitants of the Mesozoic world. They cover a long time span, from the beginnings of modern scientific palaeontology in the 1700s to the present, and deal with many parts of the world, from the Yorkshire coast to Central India, from Bavaria to the Sahara. The characters in these stories include professional palaeontologists and geologists (some of them well-known, others quite obscure), explorers, amateur fossil collectors, and artists, linked together by their interest in Mesozoic creatures.
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862393110
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The discovery of dinosaurs and other large extinct saurians - a term under which the Victorians commonly lumped ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and their kin - makes exciting reading and has caught the attention of palaeontologists, historians of science and the general public alike. The papers in this collection go beyond the familiar tales about famous fossil hunters and focus on relatively little-known episodes in the discovery and interpretation (from both a scientific and an artistic point of view) of dinosaurs and other inhabitants of the Mesozoic world. They cover a long time span, from the beginnings of modern scientific palaeontology in the 1700s to the present, and deal with many parts of the world, from the Yorkshire coast to Central India, from Bavaria to the Sahara. The characters in these stories include professional palaeontologists and geologists (some of them well-known, others quite obscure), explorers, amateur fossil collectors, and artists, linked together by their interest in Mesozoic creatures.
Timelines of Nearly Everything
Author: Manjunath.R
Publisher: Manjunath.R
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 2658
Book Description
This book takes readers back and forth through time and makes the past accessible to all families, students and the general reader and is an unprecedented collection of a list of events in chronological order and a wealth of informative knowledge about the rise and fall of empires, major scientific breakthroughs, groundbreaking inventions, and monumental moments about everything that has ever happened.
Publisher: Manjunath.R
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 2658
Book Description
This book takes readers back and forth through time and makes the past accessible to all families, students and the general reader and is an unprecedented collection of a list of events in chronological order and a wealth of informative knowledge about the rise and fall of empires, major scientific breakthroughs, groundbreaking inventions, and monumental moments about everything that has ever happened.
Gideon Algernon Mantell
Author: Dennis R. Dean
Publisher: Academic Resources Corp
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Biographical & bibliographical data tracing the life & career of the pioneering paleontologist Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852).
Publisher: Academic Resources Corp
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Biographical & bibliographical data tracing the life & career of the pioneering paleontologist Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852).