Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740

by Kennedy, Barbara
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ISBN: 9781405101882
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This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the past 250 years.

  • Chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent different views of the Earth over the last 250 years.
  • Uses as its central viewpoint changing ideas about the significance of the action of rain and rivers on the Earth's surface.
  • Shows how our contemporary "truths" have come to be accepted and exposes the frailty of even the most impeccably scientific visions of the Earth.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Kennedy, Barbara
  • ISBN: 9781405101882
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.74 x 0.49
  • Number Of Pages: 176
  • Publication Year: 2006

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