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Author : Archibald Geikie
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Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Founders of Geology written by Archibald Geikie and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Archibald Geikie (Sir).)
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Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book The Founders of Geology written by Archibald Geikie (Sir).) and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kieran D. O'Hara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107176182
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Geology written by Kieran D. O'Hara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 200 years of the history of the development of the study of geology.
Author : Sir Archibald Geikie
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230326078
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Founders of Geology written by Sir Archibald Geikie and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...even his opinions and theories in themselves, that gave him his unquestioned authority among the geologists of his time. His influence and fame sprang mainly from the personality of the man. His unwearied enthusiasm and eager zeal in the furtherance of his favourite studies, his kindness and helpfulness, his wide range of knowledge, and the vivacity, perspicuity, and eloquence with which he communicated it, his absolute confidence in the solidity of his theoretical doctrines--these were the sources of his power rather than the originality and importance of his own contributions to geology. His followers, indeed, captivated by the precision of his system and its apparent applicability in any and every country, claimed for him the highest place in the ranks of those who had studied the history of the earth. But the exaggeration of their claim was amply shown by the rapidity with which the Wernerian doctrines began to fall into disrepute even before the death of their author. CHAPTER VIII The Wernerian School of Geology. Its great initial influence and subsequent decline. Effect of the controversy about the origin of Basalt upon this School. Early history of Volcanic Geology. History of opinion regarding Earthquakes. In tracing the influence of Werner's teaching upon the progress of geological inquiry, we must begin by the full and frank acknowledgment that when all objections and qualifications have been made regarding his theoretical opinions, the momentous fact remains that by his personal example and contagious enthusiasm he rendered a vast service to the science. He awakened a far more widespread interest in the ancient history of the earth than had ever before existed, and even where his pupils found reason eventually to abandon many...
Author : Cynthia V. Burek
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9781862392274
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (922 download)
Download or read book The Role of Women in the History of Geology written by Cynthia V. Burek and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2007 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a first as it unravels the diverse roles women have played in the history and development of geology as a science predominantly in the UK, Ireland and Australia, and selectively in Germany, Russia and US. The volume covers the period from the late eighteenth century to the present day and shows how the roles that women have played changed with time. These included illustrators, museum collectors and curators, educationalists, researchers and geologists. Originally as wives, sisters or mothers many were assistants to their male relatives. This book looks at all these forgotten women and for the first time historians and scientists together explore the contribution they made to this male-dominated subject.
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Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Founders of Geology written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmond A. Mathez
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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 : Archibald Geikie
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Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (644 download)
Download or read book The Founders of Geology written by Archibald Geikie and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Roger Oldroyd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674883826
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Thinking about the Earth written by David Roger Oldroyd and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rocks and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, seismology, theories of mountain building, and geochemistry.
Author : Sandra Herbert
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801443480
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Charles Darwin, Geologist written by Sandra Herbert and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pleasure of imagination.... I a geologist have illdefined notion of land covered with ocean, former animals, slow force cracking surface &c truly poetical."--from Charles Darwin's Notebook M, 1838 The early nineteenth century was a golden age for the study of geology. New discoveries in the field were greeted with the same enthusiasm reserved today for advances in the biomedical sciences. In her long-awaited account of Charles Darwin's intellectual development, Sandra Herbert focuses on his geological training, research, and thought, asking both how geology influenced Darwin and how Darwin influenced the science. Elegantly written, extensively illustrated, and informed by the author's prodigious research in Darwin's papers and in the nineteenth-century history of earth sciences, Charles Darwin, Geologist provides a fresh perspective on the life and accomplishments of this exemplary thinker. As Herbert reveals, Darwin's great ambition as a young scientist--one he only partially realized--was to create a "simple" geology based on movements of the earth's crust. (Only one part of his scheme has survived in close to the form in which he imagined it: a theory explaining the structure and distribution of coral reefs.) Darwin collected geological specimens and took extensive notes on geology during all of his travels. His grand adventure as a geologist took place during the circumnavigation of the earth by H.M.S. Beagle (1831-1836)--the same voyage that informed his magnum opus, On the Origin of Species. Upon his return to England it was his geological findings that first excited scientific and public opinion. Geologists, including Darwin's former teachers, proved a receptive audience, the British government sponsored publication of his research, and the general public welcomed his discoveries about the earth's crust. Because of ill health, Darwin's years as a geological traveler ended much too soon: his last major geological fieldwork took place in Wales when he was only thirty-three. However, the experience had been transformative: the methods and hypotheses of Victorian-era geology, Herbert suggests, profoundly shaped Darwin's mind and his scientific methods as he worked toward a full-blown understanding of evolution and natural selection.
Author : Archibald Geikie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332802111
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Founders of Geology (Classic Reprint) written by Archibald Geikie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Founders of Geology In this extension of the subject I have adhered to my original plan of tracing the origin and slow develop ment of geological science, rather in an account of the careers of a few of the chief leaders by whom the progress has been mainly effected, than in an attempt to summarise also the work of their less illustrious contemporaries. 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.
Author : Sir Archibald Geikie
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (683 download)
Download or read book The Founders of Geology written by Sir Archibald Geikie and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martina Kölbl-Ebert
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9781862392694
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Geology and Religion written by Martina Kölbl-Ebert and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses this long-standing relationship from a historical point of view, which in the past has been sometimes indifferent, sometimes fruitful and sometimes full of conflict. The relationship continues well into the present. While Christian fundamentalists attack evolution and related palaeontological findings as well as the geological evidence of the age of the Earth, mainstream theologians strive for a fruitful dialogue between science and religion. Much of what is written and discussed today can only be understood, when the historical perspective is added. This book considers the following topics: the development of geology from mythological approaches towards the European Enlightenment, Biblical or Geological Flood and the age of the Earth, geology within 'religious' organizations, biographical case studies of geological clerics and religious geologists, religion and evolution, historical aspects of creationism and its motives.
Author : Archibald Geikie
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ISBN 13 : 9780486203522
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book “The” Founders of Geology written by Archibald Geikie and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cherry Lewis
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9781862392779
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Making of the Geological Society of London written by Cherry Lewis and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2009 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gabriel Gohau
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813516660
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (166 download)
Download or read book A History of Geology written by Gabriel Gohau and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISBN 081351665X LCCN 9047755.
