Inventing the Earth - E-book

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Inventing The Earth - ENG

Ideas On Landscape Development Since 1740

Barbara Kennedy

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ISBN:	9781405172660
Formato:	Page Fidelity
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Wiley Global Research (STMS)
Tema:	Ciencia
Subtema:	Ciencias de la Tierra general
Año de publicación:	2008-04-15

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 surface. Shows how our contemporary â€œtruthsâ€? have come to be accepted and exposes the frailty of even the most impeccably scientific visions of the Earth.

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