Worlds before Adam : the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform /
In this account of the reconstruction of prehuman geohistory Rudwick takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain's Victorian age chronicling the staggering discoveries made during the period and the efforts made to fit them into an understanding of...
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2008
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Table of 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).
