Research Catalog

Title

Images of the Earth : essays in the history of the environmental sciences / edited by Ludmilla Jordanova and Roy Porter.

Publication

[London] : British Society for the History of Science, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Jordanova, L. J.
• Porter, Roy, 1946-

Description

viii, 293 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

BSHS monographs ; 1

Subject

• Geology > Philosophy > Congresses
• Geology > History > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Revelation and the cyclical cosmos of John Hutchinson / G.N. Cantor -- Hutton's theory of the earth / R. Grant -- The natural theology of the geologists: some theological strata / John Hedley Brooke -- Transposed concepts from the human sciences in the early work Charles Lyell / Martin J.S. Rudwick -- Geology and landscape painting in nineteenth-century England / Marcia Pointon -- Earth science and environmental medicine: the synthesis of the late Enlightenment / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Chemical geology or geological chemistry? / W.H. Brock -- The controversy of the Moulin-Quignon jaw: the role of Hugh Falconer / Patrick J. Boylan -- The lost limb: geology and natural history / David Elliston Allen -- Geological communication in the Bath area in the last half of the eighteenth century / Hugh Torrens -- Geological controversy and its historiography: the prehistory of the Geological Society of London / Paul Julian Weindling.

Call Number

JSE 00-1078

ISBN

0906450128

OCLC

38024336

Title

Images of the Earth : essays in the history of the environmental sciences / edited by Ludmilla Jordanova and Roy Porter.

Imprint

[London] : British Society for the History of Science, 1997.

Edition

2nd rev. and enl. ed.

Series

BSHS monographs ; 1

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Jordanova, L. J.

Porter, Roy, 1946-

Research Call Number

JSE 00-1078