Earth cycles : a historical perspective / David Oldroyd.
Earth cycles : a historical perspective / David Oldroyd.
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Westport, Conn. : Greenwood ; Oxford : Harcourt Education [distributor], 2006.
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2006.
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N551/152
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xiv, 234 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Contents
Introduction: thinking in cycles -- Ideas of geocycles from the ancient world to the renaissance -- Straightforward thinking about the earth -- Robert Hooke and the first testable-in-principle theory of geological cycles -- The founder of geology? James Hutton and the geostrophic cycle, and a French...
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Westport, Conn. : Greenwood ; Oxford : Harcourt Education [distributor], 2006.
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Connecticut
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2006.
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Earth cycles : a historical perspective / David Oldroyd.
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Greenwood guides to great ideas in science, 1559-5374.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-224) and index.
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N551/152
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0313332290 (hbk.) :
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551
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991021685689702626
