The Making of Geology: Earth Science in Britain 1660-1815

by Roy Porter

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Between the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth century there developed in Britain a range of empirical and increasingly secular sciences concerned with the earth. This book presents a detailed account of how this development led to the creation of a complex socio-intellectual fabric of methods, ambitions, facts and ideas which took on the nature of a distinctive, self-sustaining discipline: 'geology'. During this period the criteria...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521081289

ISBN13:9780521081283

Release Date:September 2008

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:308 Pages

Weight:0.86 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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