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The Earthquake Observers (Hardcover, New)
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The Earthquake Observers (Hardcover, New)
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Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure
and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only
on the recordings of seismographs, but also on the observations of
eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteenth century, a
scientific description of an earthquake was built of stories -
stories from as many people in as many situations as possible.
Sometimes their stories told of fear and devastation, sometimes of
wonder and excitement. In "The Earthquake Observers", Deborah R.
Coen acquaints readers not only with the century's most eloquent
seismic commentators, including Alexander von Humboldt, Charles
Darwin, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Karl Kraus, Ernst Mach, John
Muir, and William James, but also with countless other
citizen-observers, many of whom were women. Coen explains how
observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion
into a field for scientific research, turning earthquakes into
natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human
sciences. Seismology abandoned this project of citizen science with
the introduction of the Richter Scale in the 1930s, only to revive
it in the twenty-first century in the face of new hazards and
uncertainties. "The Earthquake Observers" tells the history of this
interrupted dialogue between scientists and citizens about living
with environmental risk.
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