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Adam Sedgwick
Alcide d'Orbigny
Alexandre Brongniart
Ambiguity
Anthony Hallam
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Carboniferous
Carboniferous Limestone
Catastrophism
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Charles Babbage
Charles Darwin
Charles Lapworth
Charles Lyell
Civil disorder
Crust (geology)
Darwinism
David Dale Owen
Devonian
Edward Sabine
Embarrassment
Eocene
Epoch (geology)
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Flood geology
Fossil collecting
Fossiliferous limestone
Geographer
Geological survey
Geologist
Geology
Geology of Russia
Geology of South Wales
Geology of the Alps
Geology of the United States
Geology of Wales
Geomorphology
George Darwin
Gneiss
Goniatite
Greywacke
Henry De la Beche
Humphry Davy
Invertebrate paleontology
John Willis Clark
Louis Agassiz
Mechanics' Institutes
Millstone Grit
Mineralogy
Miocene
Mold
Mudstone
Nomenclature
Old Red Sandstone
Ordovician
Paleontology
Paleozoic
Permian
Plutonism
Potsdam Sandstone
Reductionism
Roderick Murchison
Samuel Wilberforce
Setback (architecture)
Silures
Silurian
Stratigraphy
Superiority (short story)
The Other Hand
Theodolite
Trilobite
Unconformity
William Lonsdale
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- ISBN 9780691605845
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Secord gives a dazzlingly detailed account of this scientific trench warfare and its social consequences. One ends up with a marvellous feeling for the major taxonomic enterprises in Darwin's younger day: mapping, ordering, conquering 'taming the chaos" of the strata. All of these of course had social and imperial ramifications; and Secord mentions geology's moral appeal (in supporting a divinely-stratified Creation) to a beleaguered elite intent on subduing the lower orders. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
