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Histoires de la Terre [Eart...
This collection of essays explores how Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment developments in the earth sciences and related fields (paleontology, mining, archeology, seismology, oceanography, evolution, etc.) impacted on contemporary French culture. They reveal that geological ideas were a much more pervasive and influential cultural force than has hitherto been supposed. From the mid-eighteenth century, with the publication of Buffon's seminal Théorie de la Terre (1749), until the early twentieth century, concepts and figures drawn from the earth sciences inspired some of the most important Fr
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monografia Rebiun19172636 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun19172636 m d cr -n--------- 130418s2008||||||| s|||||||||||eng|d 94-012-0641-4 1-4356-9529-1 UPVA 997914720803706 UAM 991008022378904211 UPM 991005763014604212 UPCT u268170 AU-PeEL eng AU-PeEL AU-PeEL eng 303.4830944 Lyle, Louise FAUX TITRE, VOLUME 322 Histoires de la Terre electronic resource] Earth Sciences and French Culture 1740-1940 Faux Titre, 322 Amsterdam Editions Rodopi 2008 Amsterdam Amsterdam Editions Rodopi 1 online resource (273 p.) 1 online resource (273 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Faux Titre, 322 Description based upon print version of record Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; SECTION 1 THE ENLIGHTENMENT; SECTION 2 EARLY TO MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY; SECTION 3 LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY; SECTION 4 EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY; Index of Names This collection of essays explores how Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment developments in the earth sciences and related fields (paleontology, mining, archeology, seismology, oceanography, evolution, etc.) impacted on contemporary French culture. They reveal that geological ideas were a much more pervasive and influential cultural force than has hitherto been supposed. From the mid-eighteenth century, with the publication of Buffon's seminal Théorie de la Terre (1749), until the early twentieth century, concepts and figures drawn from the earth sciences inspired some of the most important Fr English Earth sciences -- France -- History -- Congresses Electronic books McCallam, David 90-420-2477-1 Faux Titre, 322