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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Main Author: O'Connor, Ralph.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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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. 
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