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Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution
Martin J. S. Rudwick
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| #1404101 in Books | imusti | 2007-04-15 | 2005-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.00 x1.90 x7.00l,4.86 | File type: PDF | 732 pages | University of Chicago Press||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent History of Nascent Geology|By Kevin O'Shaughnessy|Martin Rudwick clearly knows this history. The formation of what we would now term ‘Geology’ in the latter decades of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth is presented in a dynamic though very intricate way. Rudwick delineates the various theories which emerged in the latter half of the eighteenth ce||"To describe Rudwick as scholarly' is rather like describing Mozart as musically talented'. He is omniscient, and it's greatly to be wished that this book becomes known beyond the ranks of historians of the recondite." -- Richard Fortey "London of Books" (02
During a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth—and the relatively recent arrival of human life. 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 illuminate this scientific breakthrough that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the un...
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