On the Strata of the Earth
Author : Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 0813724856
Author : Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 0813724856
Author : Ralph O'Connor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226616703
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.
Author : Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226754888
"The story starts with William Smith's early years, from apprentice to surveyor for hire, and from publication of his groundbreaking 1815 geological strata map to imprisonment for debt. Smith's 1799 geological map of Bath and table of strata, his first strata map of England and Wales, published in 1801, and photographs of some of Smith's collection of 2,000 fossils illustrate the tale. The remainder of the book is organized into four parts, each beginning with four sheets from Smith's hand-colored, 1815 strata map, accompanied by related geological cross sections and county maps (1819-24), and followed by sections of Sowerby's fossil illustrations (1816-19), organized by strata. Interleaved between the sections are essays by scholars that focus on the people and industries that benefited from the knowledge imparted by Smith's work. Concluding the volume are reflections on Smith's later years as an itinerant geologist and surveyor, plagiarism by a rival, receipt of the first Wollaston Medal in recognition of his achievements, and the influence of his geological mapping and biostratigraphical theories on the sciences, which culminated in the establishment of the modern geological timescale"--
Author : Mikhail Vasilʹevich Lomonosov
Publisher :
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Earth (Planet)
ISBN :
Author : Jan Zalasiewicz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199214980
If aliens came to Earth 100 millions years in the future, what traces would they find of long-extinct humanity's brief reign on the planet? This engaging and thought-provoking account looks at what our species will leave behind, buried deep in the rock strata, and provides us with a warning of our devastating environmental impact.
Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : CCV Digital
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2009-12-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781407067322
Author : Thomas Nail
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 150362756X
We need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into deserts. We can even see the creation of new geological strata made of plastic, chicken bones, and other waste that could remain in the fossil record for millennia or longer. Crafting a philosophy of geology that rewrites natural and human history from the broader perspective of movement, Thomas Nail provides a new materialist, kinetic ethics of the earth that speaks to this moment. Climate change and other ecological disruptions challenge us to reconsider the deep history of minerals, atmosphere, plants, and animals and to take a more process-oriented perspective that sees humanity as part of the larger cosmic and terrestrial drama of mobility and flow. Building on his earlier work on the philosophy of movement, Nail argues that we should shift our biocentric emphasis from conservation to expenditure, flux, and planetary diversity. Theory of the Earth urges us to rethink our ethical relationship to one another, the planet, and the cosmos at large.
Author : Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov
Publisher :
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Sir Charles Lyell
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 1842
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Author : Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2021-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1000027988
Originally published in 1995, Early Creationist Journals is the ninth volume in the Creationism in Twentieth-Century America series, reissued in 2021. The book is a concise primary source collection containing a selection of journal articles from the early twentieth century outlining discoveries in biology, geology, physiology and archaeology and their relation to Christianity. The aim of the journals was to provide a platform for creationists of the 1920s to voice their theories on new science and how more recent discoveries fit within creationist beliefs, including flood theory. These interesting and unique journals will be of interest to academics working in the field of religion and natural history and provide a unique snapshot into the debates between evolutionists and Christianity during a period of great scientific change.