Charles Darwin, Geologist

by Sandra Herbert

Pleasure of imagination.... I a geologist have illdefined notion of land covered with ocean, former animals, slow force cracking surface &c truly poetical.--from Charles Darwin's Notebook M, 1838

The early nineteenth century was a golden age for the study of geology. New discoveries in the field were greeted with the same enthusiasm reserved today for advances in the biomedical sciences. In her long-awaited account of Charles Darwin's intellectual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801443482
• ISBN13: 9780801443480
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher