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This collection of essays explores how Enlightenment and
post-Enlightenment developments in the earth sciences and related
fields (paleontology, mining, archeology, seismology, oceanography,
evolution, etc.) impacted on contemporary French culture. They
reveal that geological ideas were a much more pervasive and
influential cultural force than has hitherto been supposed. From
the mid-eighteenth century, with the publication of Buffon s
seminal "Theorie de la Terre" (1749), until the early twentieth
century, concepts and figures drawn from the earth sciences
inspired some of the most important French philosophers, novelists,
political theorists, historians and popularizers of science of the
time. This book charts the original and influential ways in which
French writers and thinkers, such as Buffon, d Holbach, Balzac,
Sand, Verne, Gide and Malraux, exploited the earth sciences for
very different ends. This volume will be of interest to students,
researchers and scholars of French literature in the modern period,
cultural historians of modern France, scholars of European studies,
of French political history, of the History of Ideas or the History
of Science as well as researchers in landscape and physical
geography.
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