Worlds Before Adam

Autorentext
Martin J. S. Rudwick is research associate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and professor emeritus of history at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Bursting the Limits of Time, The Meaning of Fossils, The Great Devonian Controversy, Scenes from Deep Time, and Georges Cuvier, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Klappentext
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the long history of the earth - and the relatively recent arrival of human life. This work takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain's Victorian age, chronicling the discoveries geologists made during the period.

Zusammenfassung
Presents an account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth. This title takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain's Victorian age, chronicling the staggering discoveries geologists made during the period.

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