Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108833098 ISBN 13 : 9781108833097

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

In 1972, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis began collaborating on the Gaia hypothesis. They suggested that over geological time, life on Earth has had a major role in both producing and regulating its own environment. Gaia is now an ecological and environmental worldview underpinning vital scientific and cultural debates over environmental issues. Their ideas have transformed the Earth and life sciences, as well as contemporary conceptions of nature. Their correspondence describes these crucial developments from the inside, showing how their partnership proved decisive for the development of the Gaia hypothesis. Clarke and Dutreuil provide historical background and explain the concepts and references introduced throughout the Lovelock-Margulis correspondence, while highlighting the major landmarks of their collaboration within the sequence of almost 300 letters written between 1970 and 2007. This book will be of interest to researchers in ecology, history of science, environmental history and climate change, and cultural science studies.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Bruce Clarke is Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Literature and Science at Texas Tech University and a Baruch S. Blumberg/NASA Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress. His research focuses on 19th and 20th century literature and science, and he has authored/edited fifteen books including the Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman (2017).

Sébastien Dutreuil is a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in the Centre Gilles Gaston Granter at Aix-Marseille Université. He trained in the Earth sciences, earned a PhD in history and philosophy of science dedicated to Gaia and Earth system science before working at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. His research focuses on the history and philosophy of the Earth sciences.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108833098
• ISBN 13: 9781108833097
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 510
• Éditeur: Clarke Bruce, Dutreuil Sébastien
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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