Worlds before Adam : the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform / Martin J.S. Rudwick.
Pubblicazione:
Chicago : The University of Chicago press, 2008.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 614 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. Acknowledgments. A note on footnotes, references and quotations. Introduction. Pt. 1. 1. Cuvier's model for geohistory (1817-25) 2. Monsters from deep time (1819-24) 3. The new stratigraphy (1817-25) 4. Outlines of life's history (1818-27) 5. Ancient monsters on land (1818-25) 6. Geological deluge and Biblical flood (1819-24) 7. The role of actual causes (1818-24) 8. The dynamic earth (1818-24). Pt. 2. 9. The engine of geohistory (1824-29) 10. The tertiary gateway (1824-27) 11. The geologist's time-machine (1825-31) 12. A directional history of life (1825-31) 13. The last revolution (1824-30) 14. The last mass extinction (1826-31) 15. The centrality of central France (1826-28) 16. Men among the mammoths? (1825-30) 17. The specter of transmutation (1825-29). Pt. 3. 18. Lyell and Auvergne geology (1827-28) 19. A geological grand tour (1828) 20. Lyell in European context (1829-30) 21. Geology's guiding principles (1830) 22. The Huttonian theory rediviva (1830-31) 23. Promoting Lyell's Principles (1830-31) 24. The uniformity of life (1831-32) 25. Completing Lyell's Principles (1832-33) 26. Geohistory in retrospect (1833). Pt. 4. 27. Challenges to Lyell's geotheory (1832-35) 28. The human species in geohistory (1830-37) 29. Buckland's designful geohistory (1832-36) 30. The progression of life (1833-39) 31. Imagining geohistory (1831-40) 32. Lyell's geotheory dismembered (1834-40) 33. Actual causes on trial (1834-39) 34. Explaining erratics (1833-40) 35. Snowball earth? (1835-40) 36. Taking stock for the future (1840-45). Concluding (un)scientific postscript. Sources. Index
