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Reading the Rocks

How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life

Reading the Rocks( )
Author: Maddox, Brenda
ISBN:978-1-63286-913-5
Publication Date:Nov 2017
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $19.60
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A rich and exuberant group biography of the early geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history.The birth of geology was fostered initially by gentlemen whose wealth supported their interests, but in the nineteenth century, it was advanced by clergymen, academics, and women whose findings expanded the field. Reading the Rocks brings to life this eclectic cast of characters who brought passion, eccentricity, and towering...
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Pages:272



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