Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740

Barbara Kennedy

avr. 2008 · Vendu par John Wiley & Sons

À propos de cet e-book

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.

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• 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.

À propos de l'auteur

Dr Barbara Kennedy is Emeritus Fellow of St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford and former Lecturer (CUF) in the School of Geography.