The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

by Ralph O'Connor

Book Overview

At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology-and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history-was widely dismissedasdangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph O'Connor tracks the astonishing growth of geology's prestige in Britain, exploring how a new geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Bible-reading...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226616681
• ISBN13: 9780226616681
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 542 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.5" x 10.3"