Title Discovering the ice ages : international reception and consequences for a historical understanding of climate / by Tobias Krüger ; translated by Ann M. Hentschel.

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Leiden : Brill, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	History of science and medicine library, 1872-0684 ; v. 37
	History of science and medicine library ; v. 37.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents	Introduction -- How Erratic Blocks Caught the Eye of Science -- Glacier Advances and Icy Theories : 1810-1830 -- Glacier and Ice-Age Theories in the First Half of the 1830's -- The Grand Synthesis -- International Reception of Glacial Theory -- The Search for Causes of the Ice Ages -- Conclusions.
Summary	In Discovering the Ice Ages Tobias Krüger explores the discovery of the Ice Ages over the course of the 19th century, how the idea was received, and what further research it stimulated for the first time from an international perspective.
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Subject	Geology, Stratigraphic -- Pleistocene.
	Geology, Stratigraphic.
Chronological Term	Pleistocene
Subject	Glacial epoch.
	Glacial epoch.
	Geology -- History.
	Geology.
	History.
	Climatology -- History.
	Climatology.
Chronological Term	From 10 thousand to 2 million years ago
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Title	Entdeckung der Eiszeiten. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013023806
Other Form:	Print version: Krüger, Tobias, 1976- Entdeckung der Eiszeiten. English. Discovering the ice ages. Leiden : Brill, 2013 9789004241695 (DLC) 2013016827 (OCoLC)842111801
ISBN	9789004241701 (electronic book)
	9004241701 (electronic book)
	1299690912 (e-book)
	9781299690912 (e-book)
	9789004241695
	9004241698

Title Discovering the ice ages : international reception and consequences for a historical understanding of climate / by Tobias Krüger ; translated by Ann M. Hentschel.

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