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Histoires de la terre : earth sciences and French culture 1740-1940 /
This collection of essays explores how Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment developments in the earth sciences and related fields (paleontology, mining, archeology, seismology, oceanography, evolution, etc.) impacted on contemporary French culture. They reveal that geological ideas were a much more...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Faux titre ;
no. 322. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This collection of essays explores how Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment developments in the earth sciences and related fields (paleontology, mining, archeology, seismology, oceanography, evolution, etc.) impacted on contemporary French culture. They reveal that geological ideas were a much more pervasive and influential cultural force than has hitherto been supposed. From the mid-eighteenth century, with the publication of Buffon's seminal Théorie de la Terre (1749), until the early twentieth century, concepts and figures drawn from the earth sciences inspired some of the most important Fr. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435695290 1435695291 9789401206419 9401206414 |
| ISSN: | 0167-9392 ; |