| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; 322 |
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Faux titre ; no. 322.
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| Contents |
Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; SECTION 1 THE ENLIGHTENMENT; SECTION 2 EARLY TO MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY; SECTION 3 LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY; SECTION 4 EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY; Index of Names |
| Summary |
This collection of essays explores how Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment developments in the earth sciences and related fields (paleontology, mining, archeology, seismology, oceanography, evolution, etc.) impacted on contemporary French culture. They reveal that geological ideas were a much more pervasive and influential cultural force than has hitherto been supposed. From the mid-eighteenth century, with the publication of Buffon's seminal Théorie de la Terre (1749), until the early twentieth century, concepts and figures drawn from the earth sciences inspired some of the most important Fr |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English and French |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Earth sciences -- France -- History -- Congresses
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- General.
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Civilization
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Earth sciences
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Sciences de la Terre -- France -- Histoire.
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Civilisation -- France.
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| SUBJECT |
France -- Civilization -- Congresses
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| Subject |
France
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lyle, Louise
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McCallam, David.
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| ISBN |
9781435695290 |
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1435695291 |
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9789401206419 |
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9401206414 |
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