Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740ISBN: 978-1-4051-0188-2
Paperback
176 pages
December 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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This book chronicles how successive generations of natural
philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent
the view of the Earth over the past 250 years.
- Chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers,
geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent different views
of the Earth over the last 250 years.
- Uses as its central viewpoint changing ideas about the
significance of the action of rain and rivers on the Earth’s
surface.
- Shows how our contemporary “truths” have come to be accepted and exposes the frailty of even the most impeccably scientific visions of the Earth.
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