Histoires de la terre : earth sciences and French culture 1740-1940 / edited by Louise Lyle and David McCallam.

This collection of essays explores how Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment developments in the earth sciences and related fields (paleontology, mining, archeology, seismology, oceanography, evolution, etc.) impacted on contemporary French culture. They reveal that geological ideas were a much more...

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Other Authors: Lyle, Louise, McCallam, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2008.
Series:Faux titre ; no. 322.
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