Thinking about the earth : a history of ideas in geology
著者
書誌事項
Thinking about the earth : a history of ideas in geology
（Studies in the history and philosophy of the earth sciences / series editor, David Oldroyd）
Athlone, 1996
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注記
Includes bibliographies (p. [349]-386) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This text treats the development of geological ideas, from antiquity to the present. The significance of ideas about the earth is reflected in the range of thinkers who have written on geological questions: for example, Aristotle and Descartes, with their ideas grounded in philosophy; Werner, with ideas developed as an outgrowth of the German mining tradition; Humboldt, with his effort to produce a holistic picture of nature; Lyell, with his ideas on the earth's age and history; Jeffreys, with his geophysics; and Lovelock, with his "Gaia" hypothesis. Beginning with a discussion of "organic" views of the earth in mythopoeic cultures, the book traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rock and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, seismology, theories of mountain building, sedimentology, and geochemistry, and brings us back to the idea that the earth may, in a sense, be regarded as a living entity, or at least that life is an essential feature of its behaviour.
目次
- Ideas about the Earth in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- "mechanical" theories of the Earth, and physico-theology
- the beginnings of geological science
- thoughts on heat, fire and water
- the Earth surveyed and geologically mapped
- geological time and the tempo of geological change
- thoughts about climate, glaciation and carving the Earth's surface
- the making of mountains, and the pulse of the Earth
- thinking about rocks and their formation
- earthquakes, early seismology and the Earth's hidden interior
- movement of poles and continents
- some grander ways of thinking
- a few concluding thoughts
- some suggestions for further reading.
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