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Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

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The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth, Martin J. S. Rudwick's "Worlds Before Adam" picks up where his celebrated "Bursting the Limits of Time" leaves off. Rudwick takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain's Victorian age, chronicling the staggering discoveries geologists made during the period. Ultimately, Rudwick reveals geology to be the first of the sciences to investigate the historical dimension of nature, a model that Charles ...

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Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform 2010, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226731292

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Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform 2008, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226731285

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