Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405101875)

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.

Author: Barbara Kennedy
ISBN-10: 1405101873
ISBN-13: 9781405101875
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.28w x 0.70d