Reconstructing prehistoric monsters in nineteenthcentury britain and america. Along the way, rudwick rejects the popular view of this story as a conflict between science and religion and shows how the modern scientific account of the earth s deep history retains strong roots. Rudwick is an emeritus professor of history at the university of california, san diego and an affiliated research scholar at cambridge university s department of history and philosophy of science. How it was discovered and why it matters ebook written by martin j. Jul 29, 2015 rudwick is the preeminent historian of earth sciences, and earths deep history, a grand sweep from the 17th to the 21st century, is a thrilling story of discovery and debate, insight and interpretation. M j s rudwick abebooks abebooks shop for books, art. Read earth s deep history how it was discovered and why it matters by martin j. The geological society of london earths deep history. Rudwick is one of the foremost historians of geology today.
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He is an emeritus professor of history at the university of california, san diego and an affiliated research scholar at cambridge universitys department of history and philosophy of science. Along the way, rudwick rejects the popular view of this story as a conflict between science and religion and shows how the modern scientific account of the earths deep history retains strong roots in judaeochristian ideas. Charles lyells dream of a statistical palaeontology from. Though the story of the earth is inconceivable in length, rudwick moves with grace from the earliest imaginings of our planet s deep past to todays scientific discoveries, proving that this is a tale at once timeless and timely. M j s rudwick rudwick tells the gripping story of the gradual realization that the earth s history has not only been unimaginably long but also astonishingly eventful in utterly unexpected ways. Nonetheless, he succeeds in weaving together a compelling account of how earths timescale expanded to magnitudes far beyond those imagined by early scholars, and of the individuals responsible for advancing scientific. Martin john spencer rudwick born 1932 is a british geologist, historian, and academic. This 2014 book provides a lovely overview of the way that many different strands of investigation by savants, naturalists, and scientists as rudwick would characterize the bunch weave together in order to produce our current sense of earths deep history as both especially deep and especially historical. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Rudwick is professor emeritus of history at the university of california, san diego, and affiliated scholar in the department of the history and philosophy of science at the university of cambridge. His principal field of study is the history of the earth sciences. Earths deep history is a long and complex story that has, as rudwick admits, required a drastic pruning of detail.
Martin rudwicks curious paradigm of ancient history and modern creationism istockphoto. The reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read earths deep history. The book of genesis was the beginning of understanding of time for the christian world, but that implied no extant species was more than a few days older than man. In 2005 and 2008, respectively, rudwick published his. Nov 03, 2016 mr rudwick is a specialist in earths deep history, and has published many books on the theme. Rudwick is an emeritus professor of history at the university of california, san diego and an affiliated research scholar at cambridge universitys department of history and philosophy of science. Lee earth s deep history how it was discovered and why it matters por martin j. How it was discovered and why it matters this is a gem of a book, representing a distillation of a lifetimes achievement and providing not only a thrilling tour dhorizon but also providing a gripping historical framework that shows how we all stand on the shoulders of giants. Rudwick tells the gripping story of the gradual realization that the earth s history has not only been unimaginably long but also astonishingly eventful in utterly unexpected ways. Extensively illustrated, earths deep history is an engaging and impressive capstone to rudwicks distinguished career.
Scientists and artists collaborated during the halfcentury prior to the publication of darwins origin of species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the bible. Early pictorial representations of the prehistoric world martin j. So i hope he forgives my 21 yearold self for making the pilgrimage to london in 1977 to hear him speak at the geological society, and ask him to. Earths deep history how it was discovered and why it matters book. Oct 15, 2014 along the way, rudwick rejects the popular view of this story as a conflict between science and religion and shows how the modern scientific account of the earths deep history retains strong roots in judaeochristian ideas. I have tried to read his book bursting the limits of time, but it.
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