9781405101875

Inventing the Earth

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781405101875

Hardcover|9781405101875


Overview

This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the past 250 years.

  • Chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent different views of the Earth over the last 250 years.
  • Uses as its central viewpoint changing ideas about the significance of the action of rain and rivers on the Earth's surface.
  • Shows how our contemporary "truths" have come to be accepted and exposes the frailty of even the most impeccably scientific visions of the Earth.

ISBN-13

9781405101875

ISBN-10

1405101873

Weight

1.00 Pounds

Dimensions

6.33 x 0.70 x 9.41 In

List Price

$153.95

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

176 pages

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Published On

2006-01-13



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