Over 100 lithographs and engravings from the 18th and 19th centuries, many seen for the first time since their original publication, and excerpts from the texts that accompanied them, show how scienti
How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaur
"Arguably the best work to date in the history of geology."—David R. Oldroyd,Science"After a superficial first glance, most readers of good will and broad knowledge might dismiss [this
In a relatively brief period of revolutionary discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth - and the relatively rec
French zoologist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) helped form and bring credibility to geology and paleontology. Here Martin J. S. Rudwick provides the first modern translation of Cuvier's essential writing
"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field."—St
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth—and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, m
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth—and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, m
Rudwick (emeritus, history of science, U. of Cambridge, UK) collects 14 of his published articles on the history of the natural sciences. The central concerns that has animated his work since he moved
Until recently, Cuvier (1769-1832) has been remembered chiefly for being on the losing side of two great scientific debates: he opposed the biological theory of evolution, and he championed the geolog
As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Lyell's Principles of Geology has never before been available in paperback. In this third and final volume, Charles Lyell (17
