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Indlæser... Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolutionaf Martin J. S. Rudwick
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This is the heaviest book I have ever tried to read - in terms of kilograms. This is because of the superb quality of the paper and the illustrations - mainly copies of fine engravings. But the book defeated me. I got weary of the hundreds of references to Saussure and the way the helpful summaries at the end of each section took the action back, instead of propelling it forward. Rudwick’s “Deep Time” and “Fossils” books are accessible summaries of his other works - although the illustrations in Deep Time are appallingly reproduced (cheap, grainy paper in a very expensive book). This volume I turned to first to see the details of the pictures, and got briefly hooked. I also read his Great Devonian Controversy (which was incredibly detailed) with appreciation and wonder, but pivoting this narrative “before Saussure” and “after Saussure”, while an appealing device for a lecture series - is not appropriate for a book. Luckily, I did not buy volume 2, or I would have felt obliged to persevere. Rudwick does explain very well how science and knowledge advanced, step by step, often by setting aside earlier firm conclusions. He also illustrates how wide and deep were the relationships between the ‘scientists’ / savants engaged in these geo-historical efforts which preceded the science of geology. Not wasted reading time by any means. And the superb illustrations are worth an outing on their own. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a six-thousand-year-old planet was only laid to rest during a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this relatively brief period, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud did, "Bursting the Limits of Time" is a herculean effort by one of the world's foremost experts on the history of geology and paleontology to sketch this historicization of the natural world in the age of revolution. Addressing this intellectual revolution for the first time, Rudwick examines the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together. He explores who was responsible for the discovery of the earth's history, refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth, and details how the study of the history of the earth helped define a new branch of science called geology. Rooting his analysis in a detailed study of primary sources, Rudwick emphasizes the lasting importance of field- and museum-based research of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. "Bursting the Limits of Time," the culmination of more than three decades of research, is the first detailed account of this monumental phase in the history of science. No library descriptions found. |
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