Description During a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth--and the relatively recent arrival of human life.
He is the author of The Meaning of Fossils, The Great Devonian Controversy, Scenes from Deep Time, and Georges Cuvie r , all published by the University of Chicago Press..
Rudwick is research associate in the department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and professor emeritus of history at the University of California, San Diego.
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The book should be obligatory for every geology and history of science library, and is a highly recommended companion for every civilized geologist who can carry an extra 2.4 kg in his rucksack."--Stephen Moorbath, Nature About the Author Martin J. . . . " Bursting the Limits of Time is a massive work and is quite simply a masterpiece of science history.
Bursting the Limits of Time is the first detailed account of this monumental phase in the history of science.
He explores who was responsible for the discovery of the earth\'s history, refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth, and details how the study of the history of the earth helped define a new branch of science called geology.
Rudwick examines here the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together.
Bursting the Limits of Time is a herculean effort by one of the world\'s foremost experts on the history of geology and paleontology to illuminate this scientific breakthrough that radically altered existing perceptions of a human\'s place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus and Darwin did.
Description During a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth--and the relatively recent arrival of human life
