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Bursting the limits of time, the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of revolution, Martin J.S. Rudwick

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Bursting the limits of time, the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of revolution, Martin J.S. Rudwick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-699) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bursting the limits of time

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electronic resource eBook

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dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Martin J.S. Rudwick

Sub title

the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of revolution

Summary

In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a six-thousand-year-old planet was only laid to rest during a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this relatively brief period, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing pe

Table Of 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

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