Show me the bone : reconstructing prehistoric monsters in nineteenth-century Britain and America / G...
Show me the bone : reconstructing prehistoric monsters in nineteenth-century Britain and America / G...
Show me the bone : reconstructing prehistoric monsters in nineteenth-century Britain and America / Gowan Dawson.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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G 2017/5487
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English
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Physical content
476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: Cuvier's law of correlation -- Part I. Arrival, 1795-1839 : translations and appropriations. Correlation crosses the Channel ; Fragments of design -- Part II. Triumph, 1839-54 : bones, serials, and models. Discovering the dinornis ; Paleontology in parts ; Correlation at the Crystal Pa...
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Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2016.
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"Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal! Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded as scientific virtuosos, sometimes even veritable wizards,...
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Show me the bone : reconstructing prehistoric monsters in nineteenth-century Britain and America / Gowan Dawson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/5487
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74VKVgyl7DWy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgyl7DWy
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ISBN
9780226332734 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
022633273X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
DDC
560
MMS ID
991024148785302626
