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Book Synopsis The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium by : Juan Pimentel
Download or read book The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium written by Juan Pimentel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon—the first of its species to see Europe for more than a thousand years. The other crossed the Atlantic from South America to Madrid in 1789, its huge fossilized bones packed in crates, its species unknown. How did Europeans three centuries apart respond to these two mysterious beasts—a rhinoceros, known only from ancient texts, and a nameless monster? As Juan Pimentel explains, the reactions reflect deep intellectual changes but also the enduring power of image and imagination to shape our understanding of the natural world. We know the rhinoceros today as “Dürer’s Rhinoceros,” after the German artist’s iconic woodcut. His portrait was inaccurate—Dürer never saw the beast and relied on conjecture, aided by a sketch from Lisbon. But the influence of his extraordinary work reflected a steady move away from ancient authority to the dissemination in print of new ideas and images. By the time the megatherium arrived in Spain, that movement had transformed science. When published drawings found their way to Paris, the great zoologist Georges Cuvier correctly deduced that the massive bones must have belonged to an extinct giant sloth. It was a pivotal moment in the discovery of the prehistoric world. The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium offers a penetrating account of two remarkable episodes in the cultural history of science and is itself a vivid example of the scientific imagination at work.
Book Synopsis Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates, 1928-1933 by : Charles Lewis Camp
Download or read book Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates, 1928-1933 written by Charles Lewis Camp and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Advances in the History of Archaeology by : Sophie A. de Beaune
Download or read book New Advances in the History of Archaeology written by Sophie A. de Beaune and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents papers from three sessions organised by the History of Archaeology Scientific Commission at the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018) considering the development of stratigraphical methods in archaeology in many European countries, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the history of archaeology.
Book Synopsis 4th European Meeting on the Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of Latin America by : E. Díaz-Martínez
Download or read book 4th European Meeting on the Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of Latin America written by E. Díaz-Martínez and published by IGME. This book was released on 2007 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scenes and Adventures in Spain: from 1835 to 1840 by : Anonymous
Download or read book Scenes and Adventures in Spain: from 1835 to 1840 written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-28 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Book Synopsis Scenes and adventures in Spain by : John MOORE
Download or read book Scenes and adventures in Spain written by John MOORE and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scenes and Adventures in Spain, from 1835 to 1840; by Poco Mas by :
Download or read book Scenes and Adventures in Spain, from 1835 to 1840; by Poco Mas written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scenes and Adventures in Spain by : Poco Más (Writer)
Download or read book Scenes and Adventures in Spain written by Poco Más (Writer) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bursting the Limits of Time by : Martin J. S. Rudwick
Download or read book Bursting the Limits of Time written by Martin J. S. Rudwick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a six-thousand-year-old planet was only laid to rest during a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this relatively brief period, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud did, Bursting the Limits of Time is a herculean effort by one of the world's foremost experts on the history of geology and paleontology to sketch this historicization of the natural world in the age of revolution. Addressing this intellectual revolution for the first time, Rudwick examines the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together. He explores who was responsible for the discovery of the earth's history, refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth, and details how the study of the history of the earth helped define a new branch of science called geology. Rooting his analysis in a detailed study of primary sources, Rudwick emphasizes the lasting importance of field- and museum-based research of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bursting the Limits of Time, the culmination of more than three decades of research, is the first detailed account of this monumental phase in the history of science.
Book Synopsis Obras completas y correspondencia científica de Florentino Ameghino: Primeros trabajos científicos by : Florentino Ameghino
Download or read book Obras completas y correspondencia científica de Florentino Ameghino: Primeros trabajos científicos written by Florentino Ameghino and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :C.L. Camp, S.P. Welles, and Morton Green Publisher :Geological Society of America ISBN 13 :081371057X Total Pages :472 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (137 download)
Book Synopsis Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1944-1948 by : C.L. Camp, S.P. Welles, and Morton Green
Download or read book Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1944-1948 written by C.L. Camp, S.P. Welles, and Morton Green and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1953 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Actas written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Andean Wonder Drug by : Matthew James Crawford
Download or read book The Andean Wonder Drug written by Matthew James Crawford and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century, malaria was a prevalent and deadly disease, and the only effective treatment was found in the Andean forests of Spanish America: a medicinal bark harvested from cinchona trees that would later give rise to the antimalarial drug quinine. In 1751, the Spanish Crown asserted control over the production and distribution of this medicament by establishing a royal reserve of "fever trees" in Quito. Through this pilot project, the Crown pursued a new vision of imperialism informed by science and invigorated through commerce. But ultimately this project failed, much like the broader imperial reforms that it represented. Drawing on extensive archival research, Matthew Crawford explains why, showing how indigenous healers, laborers, merchants, colonial officials, and creole elites contested European science and thwarted imperial reform by asserting their authority to speak for the natural world. The Andean Wonder Drug uses the story of cinchona bark to demonstrate how the imperial politics of knowledge in the Spanish Atlantic ultimately undermined efforts to transform European science into a tool of empire.
Book Synopsis Misplaced Objects by : Silvia Spitta
Download or read book Misplaced Objects written by Silvia Spitta and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When things move, things change." Starting from this deceptively simple premise, Silvia Spitta opens a fascinating window onto the profound displacements and transformations that have occurred over the six centuries since material objects and human subjects began circulating between Europe and the Americas. This extended reflection on the dynamics of misplacement starts with the European practice of collecting objects from the Americas into Wunderkammern, literally "cabinets of wonders." Stripped of all identifying contexts, these exuberant collections, including the famous Real Gabinete de Historia Natural de Madrid, upset European certainties, forcing a reorganization of knowledge that gave rise to scientific inquiry and to the epistemological shift we call modernity. In contrast, cults such as that of the Virgin of Guadalupe arose out of the reverse migration from Europe to the Americas. The ultimate marker of mestizo identity in Mexico, the Virgin of Guadalupe is now fast crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and miracles are increasingly being reported. Misplaced Objects then concludes with the more intimate and familial collections and recollections of Cuban and Mexican American artists and writers that are contributing to the Latinization of the United States. Beautifully illustrated and radically interdisciplinary, Misplaced Objects clearly demonstrates that it is not the awed viewer, but rather the misplaced object itself that unsettles our certainties, allowing new meanings to emerge.
Book Synopsis A Hand-book for Travellers in Spain by :
Download or read book A Hand-book for Travellers in Spain written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memorandum Anual Y Perpetuo de Todos Los Acontecimientos Naturales O Estraordinarios, Historicos Civiles Y Religiosos Que Ocurren O de Los Cuales Se Hace Mencion en El Curso Del Año; Esplicando El Origen, la Etimologia, El Significado Y la Historia de Cada Uno de Ellos by : Joaquín BASTÚS
Download or read book Memorandum Anual Y Perpetuo de Todos Los Acontecimientos Naturales O Estraordinarios, Historicos Civiles Y Religiosos Que Ocurren O de Los Cuales Se Hace Mencion en El Curso Del Año; Esplicando El Origen, la Etimologia, El Significado Y la Historia de Cada Uno de Ellos written by Joaquín BASTÚS and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
