Accessible, entertaining work addresses Earth's age as it explores the work of Hooke, Buffon, Lyell, Cuvier, Darwin, Agassiz, and others, detailing discoveries that led to ...
From Mineralogy to Geology challenges the commonly held view that geology emerged as a separate scientific speciality in early nineteenth-century Britain. By examining earlier ...
Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth ...
