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The Making of Geology: Earth Science in Britain 1660-1815
The Making of Geology Earth Science in Britain 1660-1815
Author: Roy Porter
Between the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth century there developed in Britain a range of empirical and increasingly secular sciences concerned with the earth. This book presents a detailed account of how this development led to the creation of a complex socio-intellectual fabric of methods, ambitions, facts and ideas which took...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521081283
ISBN-10: 0521081289
Publication Date: 9/18/2008
Pages: 308
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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