Worlds before Adam : the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform
- Title
- Worlds before Adam : the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform / Martin J.S. Rudwick.
- Published by
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 614 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm
- Summary
- "The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman geohistory, Martin J.S. Rudwick takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain's Victorian age, chronicling the staggering discoveries geologists made during the period: the uncovering of the first dinosaur fossils, the glacial theory of the last Ice Age, and the meaning of igneous rocks, among others. Ultimately, Rudwick reveals geology to be the first of the sciences to investigate the historical dimension of nature."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- 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).
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-603) and index.