Reading the rocks : how Victorian geologists discovered the secret of life / Brenda Maddox.
Maddox, Brenda, author.
2017
QE13.G7 M333 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Reading the rocks : how Victorian geologists discovered the secret of life / Brenda Maddox.
Author Maddox, Brenda, author.
Edition First U.S. edition.
ISBN 9781632869128 (hardcover)
1632869128 (hardcover)
9781408879603
1408879603
Published New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.
Language English
Description xii, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number QE13.G7 M333 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 551.092/2
Summary This 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.
Note "First published in Great Britain 2017"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-237) and index.
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