Book ID: CBB000701356

Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development since 1740 (2006)

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Kennedy, Barbara A. (Author)


Blackwell


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: x + 160 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description “Chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the past 250 years.” (from the abstract)


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Review Oldroyd, David (2007) Review of "Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development since 1740". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 519). unapi

Review Wohl, Ellen (2007) Review of "Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development since 1740". Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society (p. 178). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Paolo de Vingo
Luzzini, Francesco
Salvatore Vinciguerra
Davies, Timothy R. H.
Franco Prodi
Vito Rovigo
Concepts
Landscape; landscapes
Earth sciences
Environmental history
Geomorphology; physiography
Agriculture
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
Medieval
Ancient
Early modern
Places
Italy
Germany
Piedmont
Emilia Romagna
New Zealand
Greece
Institutions
Experimentalists
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