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Bursting the limits of time : the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of revolution
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Bursting the limits of time : the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of revolution

Author: M J S Rudwick
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: M J S Rudwick
ISBN: 0226731111 9780226731117
OCLC Number: 56672203
Notes: "Based on the Tarner lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1996."
Description: xxiv, 708 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Contents: Understanding the earth -- Naturalists, philosophers, and others -- Sciences of the earth -- The theory of the earth -- Transposing history into the earth -- Problems with fossils -- Reconstructing geohistory -- A new science of "geology"? -- Denizens of a former world -- Geognosy enriched into geohistory -- The gateway to the deep past -- Earth's last revolution.
Responsibility: Martin J.S. Rudwick.
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