From Mineralogy to Geology: The Foundations of a Science, 1650-1830 9780226469478, 9780226469508
Instead of exploring the development of historical geology, Laudan looks at the history of geology from the development
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English Pages 285 [289] Year 1987
Table of contents :
Title Page
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
1 - The Conceptual Foundations of Geology
2 - Mineralogy and Cosmogony in the Late Seventeenth Century
3 - The Becher-Stahl School of Mineralogy and Cosmogony, 1700-1780
4 - The Botanical Model Rejected
5 - Werner and the "School of Freiberg"
6 - The Huttonian Alternative
7 - Historical Geology
8 - Wernerian Causal Geology
9 - Lyell's Geological Logic
10 - Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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