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The Meaning of Fossils
"An absorbing history of changing views of what fossils are and how they contribute to an understanding of the history of the earth. Rudwick makes ample use of primary sources ranging in time from the first book with illustrations of fossils (1565) to O.C. Marsh's study of horse evolution in the 1870s. He documents the first attempts to collect groups of fossils, determine whether they were the remains of organisms, relate the fossils to their surrounding rock strata, and integrate fossil evidence into the concept of evolution"--Back cover.
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Die Widerlegung unseres geologischen Weltbildes
Unsere Erde im 21. Jahrhundert - ist sie das Resultat einer stetigen, seit Jahrmilliarden verlaufenden Entwicklung nach den Vorstellungen der Geowissenschaften? Bernard Ellmann hinterfragt die fundamentalen geologischen Hypothesen kritisch. Seine Schlussfolgerungen liquidieren unser modernes Weltbild, denn ihm zufolge kann die Gegenwart nicht alleiniger Maßstab zur Erklärung erdgeschichtlicher Veränderungen sein. Nach Überzeugung des Autors wurde die Erde von einer Vielzahl unvorstellbarer Katastrophen heimgesucht. Er führt seine eigenen Thesen von der Entstehung der Gebirge auf den Kontinenten und unter den Ozeanen sowie von der Bildung fossiler Brennstoffe und Salze ins Feld. Das Buch richtet sich an eine interessierte Leserschaft ohne geologische oder geophysikalische Vorkenntnisse. Auch Geowissenschaftlerinnen und Geowissenschaftler dürfen dieses Buch lesen.
Bibliography of North American Geology
1919/28 cumulation includes material previously issued in the 1919/20-1935/36 issues and also material not published separately for 1927/28. 1929/39 cumulation includes material previously issued in the 1929/30-1935/36 issues and also material for 1937-39 not published separately.
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Geology in the Nineteenth Century
In this clear and comprehensive introduction to developments in geological theory during the nineteenth century, Mott T. Greene asserts that the standard accounts of nineteenth-century geology, which dwell on the work of Anglo-American scientists, have obscured the important contributions of Continental geologists; he balances this traditional emphasis with a close study of the innovations of the French, German, Austro-Hungarian, and Swiss geologists whose comprehensive theory of earth history actually dominated geological thought of the time. Greene's account of the Continental scientists places the history of geology in a new light: it demonstrates that scientific interest in the late nine...
Language and Earth
In former times, the study of language was rarely pursued in isolation, and many of the other intellectual concerns that used to be intertwined with language study have long been on the record of historians of linguistics. The present volume is the first to probe into an association of linguistics that has so far been neglected: that with the study of the earth. The relations between linguistics and geology were intimate and manifold as both sciences were emerging in the 18th and 19th century. Highlighted in the contributions to this volume are biographical and institutional contacts, the joint interest in origins and very early developments and in the proper methods of acquiring knowledge about these, common structural and evolutionary concepts, and analogous problems in the classification of domains as fuzzy as languages and rocks.
