This re-issue, first published in 1964, is the first of a seminal
series analysing the development of the study of landforms, from
both the geographical and geological point of view, with especial
emphasis upon fluvial geomorphology. Volume 1 treats the subject up
to the first important statement of the cycle of erosion by W. M.
Davis in 1889, and attempts to identify the most significant
currents of geomorphic thought, integrating them into the broader
contemporary intellectual frameworks with which they were
associated. As well as dealing with such key figures as Werner, De
Saussure, Hutton, Playfair, Buckland, lyell, Agassiz, Ramsay, Dana,
Peschel, Powell, Gilbert and Davis, attention is also given to many
less important contributions by American, British and continental
workers. A spirited biographical treatment, attractively set off by
contemporary portraits, diagrams and sketches, will make this book
of great interest to the historian of science, and indeed to the
general reader, as well as to the student and scholar in
geomorphology, hydrology and any other earth science.
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