Essay Review ID: CBB000100479

Of “histories written by the hand of nature itself” (2001)

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Description Essay Review of Rhoda Rappaport, When Geologists were Historians, 1665-1750 (1997).


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Authors & Contributors
Yamada, Toshihiro
Cohen, Claudine
Attanucci, Timothy J.
Ziggelaar, August
Wakefield, André
Sobiech, Frank
Journals
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Publishers
Wilhelm Fink Verlag
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
University of Chicago Press
Skira
Presses Universitaires de France
Peter Lang
Concepts
Geology
Historical geology; theory of the earth
Earth sciences
Science and religion
Catastrophism
Natural theology
People
Steno, Nicolaus
Hutton, James
Saussure, Horace Bénédict de
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Kircher, Athanasius
Descartes, René
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
Early modern
Enlightenment
20th century, early
Places
United States
Sweden
France
Great Britain
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