The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field."—Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology "Rudwick has not merely written the first book-length history of palaeontology in the English language; he has written a very intelligent one. . . . His accounts of sources are rounded and organic: he treats the structure of arguments as Cuvier handled fossil bones."—Roy S. Porter, History of Science |
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Sommario
Fossil Objects I | 1 |
Natural Antiquities | 49 |
Lifes Revolutions | 101 |
Uniformity and Progress | 164 |
Lifes Ancestry | 218 |
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The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology M. J. S. Rudwick Anteprima limitata - 1985 |
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| Titolo | The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology History of science library |
| Autore | M. J. S. Rudwick |
| Edizione | illustrata, ristampa |
| Editore | University of Chicago Press, 1985 |
| ISBN | 0226731030, 9780226731032 |
| Lunghezza | 287 pagine |
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