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Book Synopsis Geology: its facts and its fictions; or, The modern theories of geologists contrasted with the ancient records of the Creation and the Deluge by : William Elfe Tayler
Download or read book Geology: its facts and its fictions; or, The modern theories of geologists contrasted with the ancient records of the Creation and the Deluge written by William Elfe Tayler and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geology written by W. Elfe Tayler and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Geology, Its Facts and Its Fictions by : W. E. Tayler
Download or read book Geology, Its Facts and Its Fictions written by W. E. Tayler and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Novel Science written by Adelene Buckland and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the “heroic age” of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading and writing of imaginative literatures helped them to discover, imagine, debate, and give shape and meaning to millions of years of previously undiscovered earth history. Borrowing from the historical fictions of Walter Scott and the poetry of Lord Byron, they invented geology as a science, discovered many of the creatures we now call the dinosaurs, and were the first to unravel and map the sequence and structure of stratified rock. As Adelene Buckland shows, they did this by rejecting the grand narratives of older theories of the earth or of biblical cosmogony: theirs would be a humble science, faithfully recording minute details and leaving the big picture for future generations to paint. Buckland also reveals how these scientists—just as they had drawn inspiration from their literary predecessors—gave Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, and Charles Dickens a powerful language with which to create dark and disturbing ruptures in the too-seductive sweep of story.
Book Synopsis The Elements of Geology by : William Harmon Norton
Download or read book The Elements of Geology written by William Harmon Norton and published by Binker North. This book was released on 1905 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elements of Geology is a classic geology textbook by W.H. Norton with the following chapters: Introduction: the scope and aim of geology -- Part I. External geological agencies: The work of the weather. The work of ground water. Rivers and valleys. River deposits. The work of glaciers. The work of the wind. The sea and its shores. Offshore and deep-sea deposits -- Part II. Internal geological agencies: Movements of the earth's crust. Earthquakes. Volcanoes. Underground structures of igneous origin. Metamorphism and mineral veins -- Part III. Historical geology: The geological record. The pre-Cambrian systems. The Cambrian. The Ordovician and Silurian. The Devonian. The Carboniferous. The Mesozoic. The Tertiary. The Quaternary. Geology is a science of such rapid growth that no apology is expected when from time to time a new text-book is added to those already in the field. The present work, however, is the outcome of the need of a text-book of very simple outline, in which causes and their consequences should be knit together as closely as possible, --a need long felt by the author in his teaching, and perhaps by other teachers also. Geology is a science of such rapid growth that no apology is expected when from time to time a new text-book is added to those already in the field. The present work, however, is the outcome of the need of a text-book of very simple outline, in which causes and their consequences should be knit together as closely as possible, --a need long felt by the author in his teaching, and perhaps by other teachers also. The author has ventured, therefore, to depart from the common usage which subdivides geology into a number of departments, --dynamical, structural, physiographic, and historical, --and to treat in immediate connection with each geological process the land forms and the rock structures which it has produced. It is hoped that the facts of geology and the inferences drawn from them have been so presented as to afford an efficient discipline in inductive reasoning. Typical examples have been used to introduce many topics, and it has been the author's aim to give due proportion to both the wide generalizations of our science and to the concrete facts on which they rest. There have been added a number of practical exercises such as the author has used for several years in the class room. These are not made so numerous as to displace the problems which no doubt many teachers prefer to have their pupils solve impromptu during the recitation, but may, it is hoped, suggest their use.
Book Synopsis The Earth on Show by : Ralph O'Connor
Download or read book The Earth on Show written by Ralph O'Connor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology—and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history—was widely dismissedasdangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph O’Connor tracks the astonishing growth of geology’s prestige in Britain, exploring how a new geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Bible-reading public. Shrewd science-writers, O’Connor shows, marketed spectacular visions of past worlds, piquing the public imagination with glimpses of man-eating mammoths, talking dinosaurs, and sea-dragons spawned by Satan himself. These authors—including men of science, women, clergymen, biblical literalists, hack writers, blackmailers, and prophets—borrowed freely from the Bible, modern poetry, and the urban entertainment industry, creating new forms of literature in order to transport their readers into a vanished and alien past. In exploring the use of poetry and spectacle in the promotion of popular science, O’Connor proves that geology’s success owed much to the literary techniques of its authors. An innovative blend of the history of science, literary criticism, book history, and visual culture, The Earth on Show rethinks the relationship between science and literature in the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Geological Survey of India by :
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Geological Survey of India written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Christian Witness, and Church Member's Magazine: by :
Download or read book The Christian Witness, and Church Member's Magazine: written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Parlement du Canada by : Canada. Parlement. Bibliothèque
Download or read book Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Parlement du Canada written by Canada. Parlement. Bibliothèque and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Dublin Review by : Nicholas Patrick Wiseman
Download or read book The Dublin Review written by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Advanced Text-Book of Geology by : David Page
Download or read book Advanced Text-Book of Geology written by David Page and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Advanced Text-Book of Geology: Descriptive and Industrial This Treatise, while intended as a sequel to the Author's "Introductory Text-Book," has been prepared throughout as a separate and independent work. The purpose of these Text-Books is briefly this: The Introductory is meant to exhibit an outline of Geology intelligible to beginners, and sufficient for those who wish to become acquainted merely with the leading facts of the science; the Advanced, on the other hand, presents the subject in detail, and is intended for senior pupils and those who desire to prosecute the study in its principles as well as deductions. Though thus prepared on the same plan, and the one but an extension and development of the other, they are both independent elementary works, and may be taken separately or in sequence, according to the progress and purpose of the student. This much may be said, that he who has mastered the Introductory will have nothing to unlearn when he comes to study the Advanced, while his acquisition of the science will have been rendered much more easy and agreeable. The Author has a strong conviction on this point. 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.
Book Synopsis Publishers' circular and booksellers' record by :
Download or read book Publishers' circular and booksellers' record written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia by : Library Company of Philadelphia
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Why Geology Matters by : Doug Macdougall
Download or read book Why Geology Matters written by Doug Macdougall and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volcanic dust, climate change, tsunamis, earthquakes—geoscience explores phenomena that profoundly affect our lives. But more than that, as Doug Macdougall makes clear, the science also provides important clues to the future of the planet. In an entertaining and accessibly written narrative, Macdougall gives an overview of Earth’s astonishing history based on information extracted from rocks, ice cores, and other natural archives. He explores such questions as: What is the risk of an asteroid striking Earth? Why does the temperature of the ocean millions of years ago matter today? How are efforts to predict earthquakes progressing? Macdougall also explains the legacy of greenhouse gases from Earth’s past and shows how that legacy shapes our understanding of today’s human-caused climate change. We find that geoscience in fact illuminates many of today’s most pressing issues—the availability of energy, access to fresh water, sustainable agriculture, maintaining biodiversity—and we discover how, by applying new technologies and ideas, we can use it to prepare for the future.
Book Synopsis Catalogue Or Alphabetical Index of the Astor Library by :
Download or read book Catalogue Or Alphabetical Index of the Astor Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
