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| Autore principale: | Corbin, Alain.
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| Titolo: | Terra incognita : a history of ignorance in the 18th and 19th centuries / Alain Corbin ; translated by Susan Pickford. |
| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : Polity, c2021. |
| Descrizione fisica: | VII, 227 p. ; 22 cm |
| Note: | Tit. orig.: Terra icognita: une histoire de l'ignorance, XVIIIe-XIXe siècle |
| Contiene: | Indice: Acknowledgmenets. A comprehensive history implies the study of ignorance. Pt. 1. Gaps in enlightenment knowledge of the Earth: 1. The great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 2. The age of the Earth? 3. Imagining the Earth's internal structure 4. The mystery of the poles 5. The unfathomable mysteries of the deep 6. Discovering mountains 7. Mysterious glaciers 8. A fascination with volanoes 9. The birth of meteorology 10. Conquering the skies 11. The state od scientific ignorance at the end of the age of Enlightenment. Pt. 2 A gradual decline in ignorance (1800-1850): 12. Understandin glaciers 13. The birth of geology 14. Volcanoes and the mystery of dry fogs 15. The ocean depths and the fear of the unknown 16. Reading clouds and the Beaufort scale 17. The poles remain a mystery 18. The state of scientific ignorance in the early 1860s. Pt. 3. Shrinking the boundaries of ignorance (1860-1900): 19. Exploring the ocean depths 20. The development of dynamic meteorology 21. Manned flight and the discovery of the troposhere and stratosphere 22. Scientific colacanology and the birth of seismology 23. Measuring the grip of ice 24. Solving the mysteries of rivers: fluvialism, hydrology and speleology 25. A new approach to reading the globe 26. Was there open sea at the poles? 27. The earth sciences slowly filter into general knowledge 28. Measuring ignorance at the dawn of the twentieth century. Notes. Index |
| ISBN: | 9781509546268 |
| Altri autori: | Pickford, Susan.
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| Discipline: | Scienze della Terra--Studi specifici. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVIII. Secolo XIX. |
| Collocazione: | LS 21889 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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