Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740ISBN: 978-1-4051-0187-5
Hardcover
176 pages
January 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
1 Inventing Scientific Explanations.
2 Inventing the Age (and Origin) of the Earth.
3 Inventing 'Modern Earth Science': Charles Lyell and 'The Principles of Geology'.
4 Inventing the Ice Age: the Rôle of Louis Agassiz.
5 Inventing a Balanced View of 'Forces Now in Operation': Charles Darwin's Travels in Space and Time.
6 Inventing a Fluvial Landscape: Powell, Gilbert and the Western Explorations.
7 The Invention of the Geographical Cycle and the Synthetic Genius of W. M. Davis.
8 Reinventing a Newtonian Universe: the Reductionist Revolution, 1945-1977.
9 Reinventing the Earth, 1977-: Homo sapiens, History and Micro-organisms.
Epilogue.
Appendix I: Cast of Principal Characters.
Appendix II: Selective Glossary of Technical Terms.
References.
Index.
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