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Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781405101875
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: Jan 1 2006
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
- Chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent different views of the Earth over the last 250 years.
- Uses as its central viewpoint changing ideas about the significance of the action of rain and rivers on the Earth's surface.
- Shows how our contemporary truths have come to be accepted and exposes the frailty of even the most impeccably scientific visions of the Earth.
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