Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740 - Couverture rigide

Kennedy, Barbara

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1405101873 ISBN 13 : 9781405101875

Editeur : *Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr Barbara Kennedy is Emeritus Fellow of St Hugh's College, University of Oxford and former Lecturer (CUF) in the School of Geography.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: *Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1405101873
• ISBN 13: 9781405101875
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 175
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible