Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740

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ISBN-10:

1405101881

ISBN-13:

9781405101882

Author(s): Kennedy, Barbara
Edition: 1
Released: Jan 13, 2006
Publisher: Wiley/Blackwell
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
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Description:

This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the past 250 years.

  • Chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent different views of the Earth over the last 250 years.
  • Uses as its central viewpoint changing ideas about the significance of the action of rain and rivers on the Earth’s surface.
  • Shows how our contemporary “truths” have come to be accepted and exposes the frailty of even the most impeccably scientific visions of the Earth.

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