Author: Alan McKirdy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910682449
Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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James Hutton
Author: Alan McKirdy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910682449
Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910682449
Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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.
Ages in Chaos
Author: Stephen Baxter
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765312389
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In the lusty and turbulent world of Enlightenment Scotland, he set out to prove it.".
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765312389
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In the lusty and turbulent world of Enlightenment Scotland, he set out to prove it.".
Earth
Author: Edmond A. Mathez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781565845954
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
A collection of essays and articles provides a study of how the planet works, discussing Earth's structure, geographical features, geologic history, and evolution.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781565845954
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
A collection of essays and articles provides a study of how the planet works, discussing Earth's structure, geographical features, geologic history, and evolution.
The 1785 Abstract of James Hutton's Theory of the Earth
Author: James Hutton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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James Hutton and the History of Geology
Author: Dennis Dean
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501733990
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
In James Hutton and the History of Geology, Dennis R. Dean provides a more accurate and complete account of Hutton's major geological writings than any that has hitherto appeared. He examines the growth and development of Hutton's thought in the light of his training and experience in medicine, agriculture, and philosophy, locating him within the intellectual milieux of Edinburgh at the height of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501733990
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
In James Hutton and the History of Geology, Dennis R. Dean provides a more accurate and complete account of Hutton's major geological writings than any that has hitherto appeared. He examines the growth and development of Hutton's thought in the light of his training and experience in medicine, agriculture, and philosophy, locating him within the intellectual milieux of Edinburgh at the height of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).
Author: James Hutton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmogony
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmogony
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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A Popular Account of the Thugs and Dacoits
Author: James Hutton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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The Mountain Mystery
Author: Ron Miksha
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497562387
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Fifty years ago, no one could explain mountains. Arguments about their origin were spirited, to say the least. Progressive scientists were ridiculed for their ideas. Most geologists thought the Earth was shrinking. Contracting like a hot ball of iron, shrinking and exposing ridges that became mountains. Others were quite sure the planet was expanding. Growth widened sea basins and raised mountains. There was yet another idea, the theory that the world's crust was broken into big plates that jostled around, drifting until they collided and jarred mountains into existence. That idea was invariably dismissed as pseudo-science. Or "utter damned rot" as one prominent scientist said. But the doubtful theory of plate tectonics prevailed. Mountains, earthquakes, ancient ice ages, even veins of gold and fields of oil are now seen as the offspring of moving tectonic plates. Just half a century ago, most geologists sternly rejected the idea of drifting continents. But a few intrepid champions of plate tectonics dared to differ. The Mountain Mystery tells their story.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497562387
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Fifty years ago, no one could explain mountains. Arguments about their origin were spirited, to say the least. Progressive scientists were ridiculed for their ideas. Most geologists thought the Earth was shrinking. Contracting like a hot ball of iron, shrinking and exposing ridges that became mountains. Others were quite sure the planet was expanding. Growth widened sea basins and raised mountains. There was yet another idea, the theory that the world's crust was broken into big plates that jostled around, drifting until they collided and jarred mountains into existence. That idea was invariably dismissed as pseudo-science. Or "utter damned rot" as one prominent scientist said. But the doubtful theory of plate tectonics prevailed. Mountains, earthquakes, ancient ice ages, even veins of gold and fields of oil are now seen as the offspring of moving tectonic plates. Just half a century ago, most geologists sternly rejected the idea of drifting continents. But a few intrepid champions of plate tectonics dared to differ. The Mountain Mystery tells their story.
Memoirs of James Hutton
Author: Daniel Benham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Moravians
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Moravians
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description