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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245 | 1 | 4 | |a The earth on show |b fossils and the poetics of popular science, 1802-1856 / |c Ralph O'Connor. |h [electronic resource] : |
260 | # | # | |a Chicago : |b University of Chicago Press, |c 2007. |
300 | # | # | |a 1 online resource (xiii, 541 p., [6] p. of plates) : |b ill. (some col.) |
504 | # | # | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-489) and index. |
505 | 0 | # | |a Introduction : Science as literature -- Enter the mammoth -- William Buckland : antiquary and wizard -- Lizards and literalists -- Lyell steps in -- Marketing geology -- Polite science and narrative form -- Time travel and virtual tourism in the age of John Martin -- Literary monsters -- Scenes and legends from deep time -- Hugh Miller and the geologic diorama -- Epilogue : New mythologies of the ancient earth. |
520 | # | # | |a 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 prestige in Britain, exploring how a new geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Bible-reading public. Shrewd science-writers, O?Connor shows, marketed spectacular visions of past worlds, piquing the public imagination with glimpses of ma. |
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