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Earth's Deep History - How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters (Paperback)
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Earth's Deep History - How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters (Paperback)
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Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages,
continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids
crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of
humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this
discovered? How was the evidence for it collected and interpreted?
And what kinds of people have sought to reconstruct this past that
no human witnessed or recorded? In this sweeping and accessible
book, Martin J. S. Rudwick, the premier historian of the Earth
sciences, tells the gripping human story of the gradual realization
that the Earth's history has not only been unimaginably long but
also astonishingly eventful. Rudwick begins in the seventeenth
century with Archbishop James Ussher, who famously dated the
creation of the cosmos to 4004 BC. His narrative later turns to the
crucial period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries, when inquisitive intellectuals, who came to call
themselves "geologists," began to interpret rocks and fossils,
mountains and volcanoes, as natural archives of Earth's history. He
then shows how this geological evidence was used and is still being
used to reconstruct a history of the Earth that is as varied and
unpredictable as human history itself. Along the way, Rudwick
rejects the popular view of this story as a conflict between
science and religion and shows how the modern scientific account of
the Earth's deep history retains strong roots in Judaeo-Christian
ideas. Extensively illustrated, Earth's Deep History is an engaging
and impressive capstone to Rudwick's distinguished career. Though
the story of the Earth is inconceivable in length, Rudwick moves
with grace from the earliest imaginings of our planet's deep past
to today's scientific discoveries, proving that this is a tale at
once timeless and timely.
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Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2016 |
Authors: |
Martin J.S. Rudwick
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Dimensions: |
156 x 330 x 2mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
392 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-42197-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
Earth sciences >
General
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LSN: |
0-226-42197-X |
Barcode: |
9780226421971 |
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