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Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740
Inventing the Earth Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740
Author: Barbara Kennedy
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 year...  more »
  • 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.
ISBN-13: 9781405101882
ISBN-10: 1405101881
Publication Date: 1/23/2006
Pages: 176
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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