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The New Science of Geology - Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The New Science of Geology - Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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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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