TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rudwick,M.J.S.
TI  - Bursting the limits of time: the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of revolution 
SN  - 9780226731148 (electronic bk.)
AV  - Q127.E8 R83 2005eb
U1  - 551.7094/09033 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Science
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Geology
KW  - Sciences
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Géologie
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Earth Sciences
KW  - Sedimentology & Stratigraphy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Geologie
KW  - swd
KW  - Historische Geologie
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "Based on the Tarner lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1996."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 653-699) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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