دانلود کتاب Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (Geological Society Special Publication no 287)

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Cover......Page 1
Front matter ......Page 2
Contents ......Page 6
Global peregrinations: four centuries of geological travel......Page 8
The organized traveller: scientific instructions for geological travels in Italy and Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries......Page 14
The geological observations of Robert Hooke (1635–1703) on the Isle of Wight......Page 26
Robert Jameson on the Isle of Arran, 1797–1799: in search of Hutton’s ‘Theory of the Earth’......Page 38
Writing, ‘inscription’ and fact: eighteenth century mineralogical books based on travels in the Habsburg regions, the Carpathian Mountains......Page 56
Geological travellers in view of their philosophical and economical intentions: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) and Caspar Maria Count Sternberg (1761–1838)......Page 70
Geological travellers in Auvergne, 1751–1800......Page 80
J. D. Forbes and Naples......Page 105
The geological travels of Charles Lyell, Charlotte Murchison and Roderick Impey Murchison in France and northern Italy (1828)......Page 117
Sharing common ground: Nery Delgado (1835–1908) in Spain in 1878......Page 127
Grenville Arthur James Cole (1859–1924): the cycling geologist......Page 143
The travels and travails of Sir Charles Lewis Giesecke......Page 157
Alexander von Humboldt in Russia: the 1829 expedition......Page 169
Hermann Abich (1806–1886): ‘the Father of Caucasian Geology’ and his travels in the Caucasus and Armenian Highlands......Page 185
On camelback: René Chudeau (1864–1921), Conrad Kilian (1898–1950), Albert Félix de Lapparent (1905–1975) and Théodore Monod (1902–2000), four French geological travellers cross the Sahara......Page 191
Théodore Andre Monod and the lost Fer de Dieu meteorite of Chinguetti, Mauritania......Page 199
The geological travels of Sir Charles Lyell in Madeira and the Canary Islands, 1853–1854......Page 215
The German geologist Georg Hartung (1821–1891) and the geology of the Azores and Madeira islands......Page 237
‘Marks of extreme violence’: Charles Darwin’s geological observations at St Jago (São Tiago), Cape Verde islands......Page 247
Naturalists from Neuchatel: America and the dispersal of Agassiz’s scientific factory......Page 263
Clarence Edward Dutton (1841–1912): soldier, polymath and aesthete......Page 279
Two Tyrrells cross the Barren Lands of Canada, 1893......Page 295
Investigating the colonies: native geological travellers in the Portuguese Empire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries......Page 305
Doing and knowing: Charles Darwin and other travellers......Page 319
The quest for limestone in colonial New South Wales, 1788–1825......Page 332
In the footsteps of Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792–1855): soldier, surveyor, explorer, geologist, and probably the first person to compile geological maps in Australia......Page 350
Nineteenth-century observations of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt, Nelson, New Zealand and trans-Tasman correlations......Page 382
Franz Hilgendorf (1839–1904): introducer of evolutionary theory to Japan around 1873......Page 396
Geophysical travellers: the magneticians of the Carnegie Institution of Washington......Page 402
Index......Page 416
Back info ......Page 423