Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales
Author: William Daniel Conybeare
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Published: 1822
Total Pages: 588
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Published: 1822
Total Pages: 588
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Published: 1822
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Lucier
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2008-12-22
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 1421402858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn “insightful” account of the early fossil fuel industry, the rise of the professional consultant, and the nexus between science and money (Technology and Culture). In this impressively researched, highly original work, Paul Lucier explains how science became an integral part of American technology and industry in the nineteenth century. Scientists and Swindlers introduces us to a new service of professionals: the consulting scientists. Lucier follows these entrepreneurial men of science on their wide-ranging commercial engagements from the shores of Nova Scotia to the coast of California and shows how their innovative work fueled the rapid growth of the American coal and oil industries and the rise of American geology and chemistry. Along the way, he explores the decisive battles over expertise and authority, the high-stakes court cases over patenting research, the intriguing and often humorous exploits of swindlers, and the profound ethical challenges of doing science for money. Starting with the small surveying businesses of the 1830s and reaching to the origins of applied science in the 1880s, Lucier recounts the complex and curious relations that evolved as geologists, chemists, capitalists, and politicians worked to establish scientific research as a legitimate, regularly compensated, and respected enterprise. This sweeping narrative enriches our understanding of how the rocks beneath our feet became invaluable resources for science, technology, and industry.
Author: Martin J.S. Rudwick
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-04-14
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1000948420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe science of geology was constructed in the decades around 1800 from earlier practices that had been significantly different in their cognitive goals. In the studies collected here Martin Rudwick traces how it came to be recognised as a new kind of natural science, because it was constituted around the idea that the natural world had its own history. The earth had to be understood not only in relation to unchanging natural laws that could be observed in action in the present, but also in terms of a pre-human past that could be reliably known, even if not directly observable and its traces only fragmentarily preserved. In contrast to this radically novel sense of nature's own contingent history, the earth's unimaginably vast timescale was already taken for granted by many naturalists (though not yet by the wider public), and the concurrent development of biblical scholarship precluded any significant sense of conflict with religious tradition. A companion volume, Lyell and Darwin, Geologists: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Reform, was published in 2005.
Author: Claude C. Albritton
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 0813720893
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 1056
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Published: 1824
Total Pages: 446
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Total Pages: 874
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