دانلود کتاب Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development since 1740

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This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the past 250 years.

• Chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent different views of the Earth over the last 250 years.
  
• Uses as its central viewpoint changing ideas about the significance of the action of rain and rivers on the Earth’s surface.
  
• Shows how our contemporary “truths” have come to be accepted and exposes the frailty of even the most impeccably scientific visions of the Earth.

Content:
Chapter 1 Inventing Scientific Explanations (pages 3–10):
Chapter 2 Inventing the Age (and Origin) of the Earth (pages 11–22):
Chapter 3 Inventing ‘Modern Earth Science’: Charles Lyell and ‘the Principles of Geology’ (pages 23–40):
Chapter 4 Inventing the Ice Age: The Role of Louis Agassiz (pages 41–54):
Chapter 5 Inventing A Balanced View of ‘forces Now in Operation’: Charles Darwin's Travels in Space and Time (pages 55–71):
Chapter 6 Inventing A Fluvial Landscape: Powell, Gilbert and the Western Explorations (pages 72–86):
Chapter 7 Inventing the Geographical Cycle and the Synthetic Genius of W.M. Davis (pages 87–97):
Chapter 8 Reinventing A Newtonian Universe: the Reductionist Revolution, 1945?77 (pages 98–111):
Chapter 9 Reinventing the Earth, 1977? : Homo Sapiens, History and Microorganisms (pages 112–126):