Thinking about the Earth: A History of Ideas in Geology

by David R. Oldroyd and David Oldroyd

Not quite a history of geology, Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. Beginning with a discussion of "organic" views of the earth in ancient cultures, David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rocks and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, seismology, theories of mountain building, and geochemistry. He brings us...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674883829
• ISBN13: 9780674883826
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"