The revolution in geology from the Renaissance to the enlightenment / edited by Gary D. Rosenberg.
| Other author/creator | Rosenberg, Gary D. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, ©2009. |
| Description | vii, 283 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. |
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| Series | Memoir ; 203 Memoir (Geological Society of America) 203. ^A15482 |
| Contents | The measure of man and landscape in the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution / Gary D. Rosenberg -- Geochemical concepts in Isaac Newton's early alchemy / William R. Newman -- From alchemy to science : the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment in Spanish American mining and metallurgy / Joaquín Pérez Melero -- Signs and symbols in Kircher's Mundus Subterraneus / William C. Parcell -- Niels Stensen-Steno, in the world of collections and museums / Elsebeth Thomsen -- The path to Steno's synthesis on the animal origin of glossopetrae / Kuang-Tai Hsu -- Hooke-Steno relations reconsidered : reassessing the roles of Ole Borch and Robert Boyle / Toshihiro Yamada -- Prompters of Steno's geological principles : generations of stones in living beings, glossopetrae and molding / Troels Kardel -- The age of Earth in Niels Stensen's geology / August Ziggelaar -- Nicolaus Steno the problem of deep time / Alan H. Cutler -- Nicholas Steno and René Descartes : a Cartesian perspective on Steno's scientific development / Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen -- On the origin of natural history : Steno's modern, but forgotten philosophy of science / Jens Morten Hansen -- Nicholas Steno's way from experience to faith : geological evolution and the original sin of mankind / Frank Sobiech -- The Scientific Revolution and Nicholas Steno's twofold conversion / Gian Battista Vai -- Benjamin Franklin and geology / Dennis R. Dean -- Thomas Jefferson, extinction, and the evolving view of Earth history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Stephen M. Rowland -- "Very vain is Science' proudest boast" : the resistance to geological theory in early nineteenth-century England / Noah Heringman -- Charles S. Peirce and the "Light of Nature" / Victor R. Baker -- Theory choice in the historical sciences : geology as a philosophical case study / William L. Vanderburgh -- Natural theology, design and law / Michael T. Ghiselin. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 2008049216 |
| ISBN | 9780813712031 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0813712033 (cloth) |
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