Martin J. S. Rudwick is research associate in the department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and professor emeritus of history at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Meaning of Fossils, The Great Devonian Controversy, Scenes from Deep Time, and Georges Cuvier, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
6 Ebooks by Rudwick Martin J. S. Rudwick
Rudwick Martin J. S. Rudwick: Scenes from Deep Time
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 …
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Rudwick Martin J. S. Rudwick: Great Devonian Controversy
"Arguably the best work to date in the history of geology."-David R. Oldroyd, Science"After a superficial first glance, most readers of good will and broad knowledge might dismiss …
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Rudwick Martin J. S. Rudwick: Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes
French zoologist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) helped form and bring credibility to geology and paleontology. Here Martin J. S. Rudwick provides the first modern translation of Cuvier’s essential …
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Rudwick Martin J. S. Rudwick: Bursting the Limits of Time
In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although …
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Rudwick Martin J. S. Rudwick: Worlds Before Adam
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, …
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Rudwick Martin J. S. Rudwick: Meaning of Fossils
"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person’s view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick’s book should do for many paleontologists’ view of the history of their own …
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