Martin J.S. Rudwick, Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

It is a daunting task to review one of Martin Rudwick’s books. A former palaeontologist, Martin Rudwick is the author of many books, among which The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology (1972), The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlem...

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In:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/miranda,
Main Author: Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Language:Anglais
Published: Miranda 2013
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Online Access:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:It is a daunting task to review one of Martin Rudwick’s books. A former palaeontologist, Martin Rudwick is the author of many books, among which The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology (1972), The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists (1985), Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World (1992), Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes (1997), The New Science of...