科学革命時代の地史の再建 Bursting the Limits of Time : The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution

Rudwick, Martin J. S.

University of Chicago Press（2007/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 732 p.／サイズ 145 halftones
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780226731131
• DDC分類 551.09409034

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2005. Addressing this intellectual revolution for the first time, Rudwick examines the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together.

Full Description

During a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth - and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Bursting the Limits of Time is a herculean effort by one of the world's foremost experts on the history of geology and paleontology to illuminate this scientific breakthrough that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus and Darwin did. Rudwick examines here the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together. He explores who was responsible for the discovery of the earth's history, refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth, and details how the study of the history of the earth helped define a new branch of science called geology. "Bursting the Limits of Time" is the first detailed account of this monumental phase in the history of science.