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ISBN10: 0674883829, ISBN13: 9780674883826, [publisher: Harvard University Press] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.64
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Cambridge Harvard University Press 1996 Hard cover Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 440 p. Contains: Illustrations. Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Earth Sciences.

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Harvard University Press, Date: 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 410 pages. By the Australian geologist. A 'history from Antiquity to the present of ideas about the planet on which we live' -- from the front flap. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, whose work is cited on several pages, and with Gould's pencil notes on the rear endpapers and minor marginalia on at least one page. With a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance. *** Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay 'A Seahorse for All Races' Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: 'Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book.' *** We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit. Not quite a history of geology, Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. Beginning with a discussion of "organic" views of the earth in ancient cultures, David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rocks and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, ...

ISBN10: 0674883829, ISBN13: 9780674883826, [publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts] Hardcover sehr guter Zustand, geringe Gebrauchs- und Alterungsspuren: ohne Schutzumschlag - 3-4 kleine Eselsohren - Rückseite mit lösbarem ISBN-Aufkleber - Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Glossary - Introduction - A Mythical and Living World: Ideas About the Earth in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - 'Mechanical' Theories of the Earth and Physico-Theology - The Beginnings of Geological Science: Detachment from Cosmogony and Mineralogy - Thoughts on Heat, Fire and Water - The Earth Surveyed and Geologically Mapped: the Territorial Imperative - Geological Time and the Tempo of Geological Change - Thoughts About Climate, Glaciation and Carving the Earth's Surface - The Making of Mountains and the Pulse of the Earth - Thinking About Rocks and their Formation: Magma, Migma and All That Stuff - Thinking with Instruments: Earthquakes, Early Seismology and the Earth's Hidden Interior - Movement of Poles and Continents, or Getting Bigger? - Some Grander Ways of Thinking - Some Concluding Thoughts - Suggestions for Further Reading - Notes - Bibliography - Index Buchreihe: Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Earth Sciences Seitenanzahl: 410 Seiten mit 62 Bildern Format: ca. 16 x 24 Leinen Englisch
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