Article ID: CBB000068670

On being the first Western geologist in China: The work of Raphael Pumpelly (1837-1923) (1996)

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Description “This paper offers a reconstruction of Pumpelly's journeys and seeks to understand what an explorer might do in a land where there had been no previous geological investigations by persons trained in the methods of Western science.”


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Authors & Contributors
Stone, Philip
Erick Villanueva-Villaseñor
Roy W. McIntyre
Pizzato, Fedra A.
James B. Jago
Benjamin J. Burger
Journals
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Archives of Natural History
Revue de la Maison Française d'Oxford
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Almagest
Publishers
Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana
University of Delaware
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Alabama Press
University of Oklahoma
Concepts
Geology
Paleontology
Maps; atlases
Fossils
Great Britain, colonies
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
People
Pumpelly, Raphael
Joseph Burkart
Bedford, Robert
Koch, Albert C.
Hartley Travers Ferrar
Werner, Abraham Gottlob
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Neolithic period
Pleistocene
20th century
Places
Italy
Antarctica
Edinburgh
Central Asia
London (England)
Scotland
Institutions
Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana
British Geological Survey
British East India Company
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