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Earth's Deep History: How it Was Discovered and Why it Matters
Professor Martin J. S. Rudwick
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Description for Earth's Deep History: How it Was Discovered and Why it Matters
Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: RB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 330 x 30. Weight in Grams: 610.
Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for it collected and interpreted? And what kinds of people have sought to reconstruct this past that no human witnessed or recorded? In this sweeping and accessible book, Martin J. S. Rudwick, the premier historian of the Earth sciences, tells the gripping human story of the gradual realization that the Earth's history ... Read more
Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for it collected and interpreted? And what kinds of people have sought to reconstruct this past that no human witnessed or recorded? In this sweeping and accessible book, Martin J. S. Rudwick, the premier historian of the Earth sciences, tells the gripping human story of the gradual realization that the Earth's history ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
610g
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226421971
SKU
V9780226421971
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About Professor Martin J. S. Rudwick
Martin J. S. Rudwick is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, San Diego, and affiliated scholar in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. His many other books include Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution and Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of ... Read more
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