Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World - Couverture souple

Rudwick, Martin J. S.

 
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Synopsis

How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.

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À propos de l?auteur

Martin J. S. Rudwick is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, San Diego and affiliated scholar in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

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9780226731049: Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World

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ISBN 10 :  0226731049 ISBN 13 :  9780226731049
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1992
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