Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

Martin J.S. Rudwick

Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Country
United States
Published
15 May 2010
Pages
648
ISBN
9780226731292

Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

Martin J.S. Rudwick

The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth, Martin J. S. Rudwick’s Worlds Before Adam picks up where his celebrated Bursting the Limits of Time leaves off. Rudwick 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. Ultimately, Rudwick reveals geology to be the first of the sciences to investigate the historical dimension of nature, a model that Charles Darwin used in developing his evolutionary theory.

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