The earth on show fossils and the poetics of popular science, 1802-1856 /
At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology?and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history?was widely dismissed as dangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph O?Connor tracks the astonishing growth of geology?s pr...
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Chicago :
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2007.
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