Author: George Perkins Merrill
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282595814
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Excerpt from Contributions to the History of American Geology Of the Report of the Smithsonian Institution, ten thousand copies; one thousand copies for the Senate, two thousand for the House. Five thousand for distribution by the Smithsonian Institution, and two thousand for distribution by the National Museum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Contributions to the History of American Geology (Classic Reprint)
Author: George Perkins Merrill
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282595814
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Excerpt from Contributions to the History of American Geology Of the Report of the Smithsonian Institution, ten thousand copies; one thousand copies for the Senate, two thousand for the House. Five thousand for distribution by the Smithsonian Institution, and two thousand for distribution by the National Museum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282595814
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Excerpt from Contributions to the History of American Geology Of the Report of the Smithsonian Institution, ten thousand copies; one thousand copies for the Senate, two thousand for the House. Five thousand for distribution by the Smithsonian Institution, and two thousand for distribution by the National Museum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Contributions to the History of American Geology
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Reference Books for History of Geology
Author: George W. White
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Pages : 12
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Novel Science
Author: Adelene Buckland
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226079686
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
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Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the “heroic age” of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading and writing of imaginative literatures helped them to discover, imagine, debate, and give shape and meaning to millions of years of previously undiscovered earth history. Borrowing from the historical fictions of Walter Scott and the poetry of Lord Byron, they invented geology as a science, discovered many of the creatures we now call the dinosaurs, and were the first to unravel and map the sequence and structure of stratified rock. As Adelene Buckland shows, they did this by rejecting the grand narratives of older theories of the earth or of biblical cosmogony: theirs would be a humble science, faithfully recording minute details and leaving the big picture for future generations to paint. Buckland also reveals how these scientists—just as they had drawn inspiration from their literary predecessors—gave Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, and Charles Dickens a powerful language with which to create dark and disturbing ruptures in the too-seductive sweep of story.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226079686
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
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Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the “heroic age” of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading and writing of imaginative literatures helped them to discover, imagine, debate, and give shape and meaning to millions of years of previously undiscovered earth history. Borrowing from the historical fictions of Walter Scott and the poetry of Lord Byron, they invented geology as a science, discovered many of the creatures we now call the dinosaurs, and were the first to unravel and map the sequence and structure of stratified rock. As Adelene Buckland shows, they did this by rejecting the grand narratives of older theories of the earth or of biblical cosmogony: theirs would be a humble science, faithfully recording minute details and leaving the big picture for future generations to paint. Buckland also reveals how these scientists—just as they had drawn inspiration from their literary predecessors—gave Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, and Charles Dickens a powerful language with which to create dark and disturbing ruptures in the too-seductive sweep of story.
Contributions to the History of American Geology. (In: Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year ending 1904).
Author: George Perkins Merrill
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Languages : en
Pages : 545
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Pages : 545
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Contributions to the History of American Geology
Author: George Perkins Merrill
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Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 545
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Category : Geologists
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Contributions to the History of American Geology
Author: George Perkins Merrill
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Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 545
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Category : Geologists
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Pages : 545
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Geologic History of Florida
Author: Albert C. Hine
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ISBN: 9780813044217
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An explanation of the geological processes that formed Florida.
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ISBN: 9780813044217
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An explanation of the geological processes that formed Florida.
Guide to Reprints
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Pages : 1190
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Stechert-Hafner Book News
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Pages : 454
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Pages : 454
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