NATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER AND THE CULTURE OF AMERICAN SCIENCE.

Livingstone, David N.

Edité par The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa

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(1987), xiv, 395pp, index, five portraits of Shaler, exhaustive bibliography. VG+ in VG+ dj. A volume in the History of American Science and Technology Series. The first book length study of the man who served as Harvard's Professor of Geology and Paleontology during the Darwinian era. Shaler, (1841-1906), born near Newport, Kentucky, was a student of Louis Agassiz and had a successful multi-faceted career as geologist, geographer, educator, humanist, and poet. He published several Kentucky Geological Surveys in his position as Kentucky state geologist. He also wrote a history of the state, Elizabethan verse plays, and works on natural history, and transportation.

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• Titre: NATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER AND THE CULTURE OF AMERICAN SCIENCE.
• Éditeur: The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
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