ISBN:
9042024771
,
9789042024779
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (272 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Faux titre 322
Parallel Title:
Print version Histoires de la Terre : Earth Sciences and French Culture 1740-1940
DDC:
303.4830944
Keywords:
Earth sciences Congresses History
;
Science in literature Congresses
;
Science and civilization Congresses
;
Science Congresses Social aspects
;
Science Congresses Philosophy
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Selected conference papers
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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