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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth—and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about this vast timescale. But despite this apparent harmony between geology and Genesis, these scientists still debated a great many questions: Had the earth cooled from its origin as a fiery ball in space, or had it always been the same kind of place as it is now? Was prehuman life marked by mass extinctions, or had fauna and flora changed slowly over time? The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman geohistory, Martin J. S. Rudwick’s __Worlds Before Adam__ picks up where his celebrated __Bursting the Limits of Time__ leaves off. Here, Rudwick takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain’s Victorian age, chronicling the staggering discoveries geologists made during the period: the unearthing of the first dinosaur fossils, the glacial theory of the last ice age, and the meaning of igneous rocks, among others. Ultimately, Rudwick reveals geology to be the first of the sciences to in

Who reads Worlds Before Adam : The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform?

Author

Professor Martin J. S Rudwick

Publisher

University of Chicago Press; University Presses Marketing [distributor]

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612538636

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Biology

Rating

4.6 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14