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Author : Alan McKirdy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910682449
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)
Download or read book James Hutton written by Alan McKirdy and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmond A. Mathez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565845954
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Earth written by Edmond A. Mathez and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays and articles provides a study of how the planet works, discussing Earth's structure, geographical features, geologic history, and evolution.
Author : Dennis R. Dean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521420488
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs written by Dennis R. Dean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Jack Repcheck
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458766624
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Found Time written by Jack Repcheck and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are four men whose life's work helped free science from the straitjacket of religion. Three of the four - Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Charles Darwin - are widely heralded for their breakthroughs. The fourth, James Hutton, is comparatively unknown. A Scottish gentleman farmer, Hutton's observations on his small tract of land led him to a theory that directly contradicted biblical claims that the Earth was only 6,000 years old. Telling the story not only of Hutton, but of the rich intellectual milieu of the Scottish Enlightenment, which brought together some of the greatest thinkers of the age - from David Hume and Adam Smith to James Watt and Erasmus Darwin - The Man Who Found Time is an enlightening, engaging narrative about a little-known man and the science he established.
Author : Donald B. McIntyre
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book James Hutton written by Donald B. McIntyre and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 1997 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Hutton's Theory of the Earth secured his place as the founder of modem geology. As a leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment period, that remarkable period in the second half of the 18th century associated with philosopher David Hume, economist Adam Smith and chemist Joseph Black, Hutton provided unequivocal evidence that the Earth was far older than generally believed. He saw the possibility of evolution, not only of the physical world, but also of living creatures. Eleven years before the birth of Darwin, Hutton saw natural selection as a "beautiful contrivance" for adapting animals and plants to their changing environments. Time has not been kind to James Hutton. He is not nearly as well known as the others from his era. Earth's Autobiography is an effort to place his work in historical perspective, recognizing his importance for the groundwork he uncovered. His scientific work is described here in its rich social and political context, much of it in his own words. This book is being published in Hutton's bicentennial year.
Author : Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765312389
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Ages in Chaos written by Stephen Baxter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the lusty and turbulent world of Enlightenment Scotland, he set out to prove it.".
Author : James Hutton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book 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.). written by James Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron Miksha
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497562387
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Mountain Mystery written by Ron Miksha and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Sir Charles Lyell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Principles of Geology written by Sir Charles Lyell and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Battersby Bailey
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (77 download)
Download or read book James Hutton, the founder of modern geology written by Edward Battersby Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. M. Celâl Şengör
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813712165
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Revising the Revisions written by A. M. Celâl Şengör and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James Hutton's 'Theory of the Earth,' first published in 1785, was considered completely new by his contemporaries, different from anything that preceded it, and widely discussed both in Hutton's own country and abroad-from St. Petersburg through Europe to New York. Yet a recent trend among some historians of geology is to characterize Hutton's work as already behind the times in the late eighteenth century and remembered only because some later geologists found it convenient to represent it as a precursor of the prevailing opinions of the day. Painstakingly researched, richly referenced, and full of interesting stories, this Memoir shatters that line of thinking and restores Hutton's standing as the father of modern geology, his ideas fully relevant to the geological problems of his day"
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674891999
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (919 download)
Download or read book Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history.
Author : Sir Charles Lyell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Principles of Geology written by Sir Charles Lyell and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9789995627539
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (275 download)
Download or read book James Hutton written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226731146
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
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.
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226112977
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Protogaea written by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protogaea, an ambitious account of terrestrial history, was central to the development of the earth sciences in the eighteenth century and provides key philosophical insights into the unity of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s thought and writings. In the book, Leibniz offers observations about the formation of the earth, the actions of fire and water, the genesis of rocks and minerals, the origins of salts and springs, the formation of fossils, and their identification as the remains of living organisms. Protogaea also includes a series of engraved plates depicting the remains of animals—in particular the famous reconstruction of a “fossil unicorn”—together with a cross section of the cave in which some fossil objects were discovered. Though the works of Leibniz have been widely translated, Protogaea has languished in its original Latin for centuries. Now Claudine Cohen and Andre Wakefield offer the first English translation of this central text in natural philosophy and natural history. Written between 1691 and 1693, and first published after Leibniz’s death in 1749, Protogaea reemerges in this bilingual edition with an introduction that carefully situates the work within its historical context.
Author : M. H. Rider
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hutton's Arse written by M. H. Rider and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring spectacular locations across the Northern Highlands of Scotland, this book describes modern geological science and explores current theories. The extraordinary history of a beautiful landscape should appeal to more general readers as the book combines humour and scientific facts.
