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The New Science of Geology: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Revolution (Variorum Collected Studies) - Tapa blanda

Rudwick, Martin J.S.

 
9781138382503: The New Science of Geology: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Revolution (Variorum Collected Studies)
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ISBN 10: 1138382507 ISBN 13: 9781138382503
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Sinopsis

The science of geology was constructed in the decades around 1800 from earlier practices that had been significantly different in their cognitive goals. In the studies collected here Martin Rudwick traces how it came to be recognised as a new kind of natural science, because it was constituted around the idea that the natural world had its own history. The earth had to be understood not only in relation to unchanging natural laws that could be observed in action in the present, but also in terms of a pre-human past that could be reliably known, even if not directly observable and its traces only fragmentarily preserved. In contrast to this radically novel sense of nature's own contingent history, the earth's unimaginably vast timescale was already taken for granted by many naturalists (though not yet by the wider public), and the concurrent development of biblical scholarship precluded any significant sense of conflict with religious tradition. A companion volume, Lyell and Darwin, Geologists: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Reform, was published in 2005.

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Martin J.S. Rudwick is Professor Emeritus of History of Science, University of California San Diego, USA and University of Cambridge, UK.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2018
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
1138382507
ISBN 13 
9781138382503
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1
Número de páginas
336
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