| Description |
xxii, 614 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Cuvier's model for geohistory (1817-25) -- Monsters from deep time (1819-24) -- The new stratigraphy (1817-25) -- Outline of life's history (1818-27) -- Ancient monsters on land (1818-25) -- Geological deluge and biblical flood (1819-24) -- The role of actual causes (1818-24) -- The dynamic earth (1818-24) -- The engine of geohistory (1824-29) -- The tertiary gateway (1824-27) -- The geologists' time-machine (1825-31) -- A directional history of life (1825-31) -- The last revolution (1824-30) -- The last mass extinction (1826-31) -- The centrality of central France (1826-28) -- Men among the mammoths? (1825-30) -- The specter of transmutation (1825-29) -- Lyell and Auvergne geology (1827-28) -- A geological grand tour (1828) -- Lyell in European context (1829-30) -- Geology's guiding principles (1830) -- "The Huttonian theory rediviva" (1830-31) -- Promoting Lyell's principles (1830-31) -- The uniformity of life (1831-32) -- Completing Lyell's principles (1832-33) -- Geohistory in retrospect (1833) -- Challenges to Lyell's geotheory (1832-35) -- The human species in geohistory (1830-37) -- Buckland's designful geohistory (1832-36) -- The progression of life (1833-39) -- Imagining geohistory (1831-40) -- Lyell's geotheory dismembered (1834-40) -- Actual causes on trial (1834-39) -- Explaining erratics (1833-40) -- Snowball earth? (1835-40) -- Taking stock for the future (1840-45). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-603) and index. |
| Subject |
Geology -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
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Geology. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Science -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
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Science. |
| ISBN |
9780226731285 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226731286 cloth alkaline paper |
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