The Great Chain of History: William Buckland and the English School of Geology, 1814-1849

by Nicolaas A. Rupke

Describes the early nineteenth-century English contributions to the revolutionary discovery that the earth has existed long before man and that it had passed through a progressive sequence of changes.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198229070
• ISBN13: 9780198229070
• Release Date: October 1983
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"