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Scenes from Deep Time - Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Scenes from Deep Time - Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Our images of the
remote past, museum displays of dinosaurs and book illustrations of
exotic plants and animals, are based on fragmentary evidence, yet
these depictions are realistic enough to suggest that we can know
exactly what the earth looked like millions of years ago. Today
depictions of the earliest stages of the earth - deep time - are so
common that we take them for granted, but less than 200 years ago
no such pictures existed. In Scenes from Deep Time, Martin J. S.
Rudwick traces the earliest attempts to reconstruct the past no one
has ever seen. With over 100 stunning lithographs and engravings
from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many reproduced here
for the first time since their original publication and accompanied
by portions of the original explanatory texts, Rudwick argues that
scientists and artists made earth history visually compelling as
evidence from nature supplanted the biblical view of the distant
past. Until 1820, the only pictorial reconstructions of earth
history were illustrations of the biblical creation story. During
the following decades, geologists and biologists gathered and
interpreted fossil evidence that suggested the earth was millions
of years old. Fossil finds inspired a new collaboration between
scientists and artists, and as they became more confident in their
visions of the past, they produced increasingly realistic
portrayals of deep time. By 1870, the prehistoric past was depicted
in the same style as the scenes we see today, and these
representations continue to reflect and often shape scientific as
well as public views. Because we can never completely know what
life was like in deeptime, these images fascinate scientists and
laypeople alike.
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