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The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology - Rudwick, Martin J S
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"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field."--Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology "Rudwick has not merely written the first book-length history of palaeontology in the English language; he has written a very intelligent one. . . . His accounts of sources are rounded and organic: he treats the structure of arguments as Cuvier handled fossil bones."--Roy S. Porter ...

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The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology 1985, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226731032

2nd Univ of Chicago PR edition

Trade paperback

The meaning of fossils : episodes in the history of palaeontology 1976, Science History Publications, New York

ISBN-13: 9780882021638

2d rev

Softcover

The meaning of fossils : episodes in the history of palaeontology 1972, Macdonald and Co, London

ISBN-13: 9780356041285

Hardcover

The meaning of fossils: episodes in the history of palaeontology 1972, Macdonald and Co. :: American Elsevier, London :: New York

ISBN-13: 9780444195760