Reading the rocks : how Victorian geologists discovered the secret of life
Maddox, Brenda2017
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A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet boosting their numbers, expanding their learning and increasing their findings were clergymen, academics - and women. This lively and eclectic collection of characters brought passion, eccentricity and towering intellect to geology and Brenda Maddox here does them full justice, bringing them to vivid life.
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Author:
Maddox, Brenda, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2017.
Collation:
xii, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408879580 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
551.0922551.092551.0922 MAD
Language:
English
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BRN:
1150202
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