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The man who found time : James Hutton and the discovery of the Earth's antiquity /
There are three men whose life's work helped free science from the strait-jacket of religion. Two of the three--Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Darwin--are widely heralded for their breakthroughs. The third, James Hutton, is comparatively unknown, yet he profoundly changed our understanding of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Praise for: The Man Who Found Time; Contents; Prologue; 1: Looking So Far Into the Abyss of Time; 2: First Came Adam and Eve, Then Came Cain and Abel . . .; 3: Auld Reekie; 4: The Storm Before the Calm; 5: Youthful Wanderings; 6: The Paradox of the Soil; 7: The Athens of the North; 8: The Eureka Moments; 9: Hutton's Boswell's; 10: The Huttonian Revolution; Epilogue; Appendix; Sources and Suggested Readings; Acknowledgments; Index.