The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the EnlightenmentGary D. Rosenberg Geological Society of America, 1 jan 2009 - 283 pagina's |
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The measure of man and landscape in the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution | 13 |
Geochemical concepts in Isaac Newtons early alchemy | 41 |
Signs and symbols in Kirchers Mundus Subterraneus | 63 |
The Path to Stenos synthesis on the animal origin of glossopetrae | 93 |
Reassessing the roles of Ole Borch and Robert Boyle | 107 |
Generation of stones in living beings | 125 |
Nicolaus Steno and the problem of deep time | 143 |
Stenos modern but forgotten philosophy of science | 159 |
Geological evolution and the original | 179 |
Benjamin Franklin and geology | 209 |
Thomas Jefferson extinction and the evolving view of Earth history in the late eighteenth | 225 |
The resistance to geological theory in early | 247 |
Geology as a philosophical case study | 267 |
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