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Author : Susan F. Schultz
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Total Pages : 946 pages
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Download or read book Thomas C. Chamberlin written by Susan F. Schultz and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan F. Schultz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
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Download or read book Thomas C. Chamberlin : an Intellectual Biography of a Geologist and Educator written by Susan F. Schultz and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520083936
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (839 download)
Download or read book The Creationists written by Ronald L. Numbers and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-seven percent of the American people, according to a 1991 Gallup poll, believe that God made man--as man is now--in a single act of creation, and within the last ten thousand years. Ronald L. Numbers chronicles the astonishing resurgence of this belief since the 1960s, as well as the creationist movement's tangled roots in the theologies of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Adventists, and other religious groups. Even more remarkable than Numbers's story of today's widespread rejection of the theory of evolution is the dramatic shift from acceptance of the earth's antiquity to the insistence of present-day scientific creationists that most fossils date back to Noah's flood and its aftermath, and that the earth itself is not more than ten thousand years old. Numbers traces the evolution of scientific creationism and shows how the creationist movement challenges the very meaning of science.
Author : Dana Mackenzie
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470348836
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be written by Dana Mackenzie and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesis This lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a successful theory of the birth of the Moon. Science journalist Dana Mackenzie traces the evolution of this theory, one little known outside the scientific community: a Mars-sized object collided with Earth some four billion years ago, and the remains of this colossal explosion-the Big Splat-came together to form the Moon. Beginning with notions of the Moon in ancient cosmologies, Mackenzie relates the fascinating history of lunar speculation, moving from Galileo and Kepler to George Darwin (son of Charles) and the Apollo astronauts, whose trips to the lunar surface helped solve one of the most enigmatic mysteries of the night sky: who hung the Moon? Dana Mackenzie (Santa Cruz, CA) is a freelance science journalist. His articles have appeared in such magazines as Science, Discover, American Scientist, The Sciences, and New Scientist.
Author : David J. Meltzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022629336X
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Great Paleolithic War written by David J. Meltzer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American prehistory might be just as ancient. And why not? The geological strata seemed exactly analogous between America and Europe, which would lead one to believe that North American humanity ought to be as old as the European variety. This idea set off an eager race for evidence of the people who might have occupied North America during the Ice Age—a long, and, as it turned out, bitter and controversial search. In The Great Paleolithic War, David J. Meltzer tells the story of a scientific quest that set off one of the longest-running feuds in the history of American anthropology, one so vicious at times that anthropologists were deliberately frightened away from investigating potential sites. Through his book, we come to understand how and why this controversy developed and stubbornly persisted for as long as it did; and how, in the process, it revolutionized American archaeology.
Author : Naomi Oreskes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195117336
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Rejection of Continental Drift written by Naomi Oreskes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did American geologists reject the notion of continental drift, first posed in 1915? And why did British scientists view the theory as a pleasing confirmation? This text, based on archival resources, provides answers to these questions.
Author : Rollin Thomas Chamberlin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Biographical Memoir of Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, 1843-1928 written by Rollin Thomas Chamberlin and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norriss S. Hetherington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131767765X
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Cosmology (Routledge Revivals) written by Norriss S. Hetherington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Cosmology, first published in 1993, recounts the history, philosophical assumptions, methodological ambiguities, and human struggles that have influenced the various responses to the basic questions of cosmology through the ages, as well as referencing important scientific theories. Just as the recognition of social conventions in other cultures can lead to a more productive perspective on our own behaviour, so too a study of the cosmologies of other times and places can enable us recognise elements of our own cosmology that might otherwise pass as inevitable developments. Apart from modern natural science, therefore, this volume incorporates brief treatments of Native American, Cave-Dweller, Chinese, Egyptian, Islamic, Megalithic, Mesopotamian, Greek, Medieval and Copernican cosmology, leading to an appreciation of cosmology as an intellectual creation, not merely a collection of facts. It is a valuable reference tool for any student or academic with an interest in the history of science and cosmology specifically.
Author : James Rodger Fleming
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199885095
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Historical Perspectives on Climate Change written by James Rodger Fleming and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century. Based on primary and archival sources, the book is filled with interesting perspectives on what people have understood, experienced, and feared about the climate and its changes in the past. Chapters explore climate and culture in Enlightenment thought; climate debates in early America; the development of international networks of observation; the scientific transformation of climate discourse; and early contributions to understanding terrestrial temperature changes, infrared radiation, and the carbon dioxide theory of climate. But perhaps most important, this book shows what a study of the past has to offer the interdisciplinary investigation of current environmental problems.
Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226318036
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Wrestling with Nature written by Peter Harrison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of natural philosophers of ancient Greece. Others have opted for early modern Europe, which saw the triumph of Copernicanism and the birth of experimental science, while yet another view is that the appearance of science was postponed until the nineteenth century. Rather than posit a modern definition of science and search for evidence of it in the past, the contributors to Wrestling with Nature examine how students of nature themselves, in various cultures and periods of history, have understood and represented their work. The aim of each chapter is to explain the content, goals, methods, practices, and institutions associated with the investigation of nature and to articulate the strengths, limitations, and boundaries of these efforts from the perspective of the researchers themselves. With contributions from experts representing different historical periods and different disciplinary specializations, this volume offers a fresh perspective on the history of science and on what it meant, in other times and places, to wrestle with nature.
Author : Robert H. Dott
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813711800
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Eustasy written by Robert H. Dott and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the history of the theory that sea levels change worldwide, from the ancient flood myths, through the theories of the 18th and 19th century, to today's complex model of the relationship between sea level and tectonic crustal change. The topic is popular again because of several recent geolog
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Total Pages : 514 pages
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Download or read book Earth Sciences History written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1666 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rollin Thomas Chamberlin
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ISBN 13 : 9781258175078
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Biographical Memoir of Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, 1843-1928 written by Rollin Thomas Chamberlin and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented To The Academy At The Autumn Meeting, 1932.
Author : Jeffrey Abt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226001105
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book American Egyptologist written by Jeffrey Abt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. In this work, Abt weaves together the disparate strands of Breasted's life, from his small-town origins following the Civil War to his evolution into the father of American Egyptology.
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Total Pages : 434 pages
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Download or read book Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald E. Osterbrock
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226639444
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950 written by Donald E. Osterbrock and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his experience as historian of astronomy, practicing astrophysicist, and director of Lick Observatory, Donald Osterbrock uncovers a chapter in the history of astronomy by providing the story of the Yerkes Observatory. "An excellent description of the ups and downs of a major observatory."—Jack Meadows, Nature "Historians are much indebted to Osterbrock for this new contribution to the fascinating story of twentieth-century American astronomy."—Adriaan Blaauw, Journal for the History of Astronomy "An important reference about one of the key American observatories of this century."—Woodruff T. Sullivan III, Physics Today
