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000801941 1001_ $$aMaddox, Brenda,$$eauthor.
000801941 24510 $$aReading the rocks :$$bhow Victorian geologists discovered the secret of life /$$cBrenda Maddox.
000801941 24630 $$aHow Victorian geologists discovered the secret of life
000801941 250__ $$aFirst U.S. edition.
000801941 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bBloomsbury,$$c2017.
000801941 300__ $$axii, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$$billustrations ;$$c25 cm
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000801941 500__ $$a"First published in Great Britain 2017"--Title page verso.
000801941 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 209-237) and index.
000801941 5050_ $$aThe abyss of time -- Healthful exertion -- Down the mines -- Vestiges of paternity -- Fighting fellows -- Dating the deluge -- On the beach -- Dinosaur wars -- Celibacy galore -- From Siluria to the Moon -- Alps on Alps arise -- Darwin the geologist -- The iceman cometh -- Footprints in Pennsylvania -- At last, the big question -- Origin of Origin -- The whole orang -- Museum pieces -- Then and now.
000801941 520__ $$aThis is a group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet also included clergymen, academics and women. The new science of geology was pursued by this assorted band because it opened a window on Earth's ancient past. They showed courage in facing the conflict between geology and Genesis as the rocks and fossils showed that the Earth was immeasurably old, rather than springing from a creation made in the six days that the Bible claimed. This book tells the individual stories of this group, their hope and fears, triumphs and disappointments, the theological, philosophical and scientific debates their findings provoked, and the way that as a group, they were to change our understanding of the world.
000801941 61020 $$aGeological Society of London$$xHistory$$y19th century.
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