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Patrons of paleontology : how government support shaped a science /
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O.C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In Patrons of P...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Life of the past.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the cost of doing business
- The beginnings of government support for paleontology
- Eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century paleontologists and patrons
- Developments in government support for paleontology in the United States between 1830 to about 1880
- Paleontology in mid nineteenth-century surveys outside the United States
- Government support for paleontology in the late nineteenth century and the turn of the twentieth century : 1880 to about 1940
- Conclusion : the chain of paleontology
- Appendix : glossary of prominent patrons and paleontologists.