Earth science : the people behind the science Katherine Cullen,
Material type: TextSeries: Pioneers in scienceNew York, NY : Chelsea House Publishers, 2006Description: xxii, 170 pages : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780816054640
- 0816054649
- QE 21 .C897 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Georgius Agricola (1494-1555): Forefather of geology and the father of mineralogy -- Nicolaus Steno (1638-1686): Law of superposition of rock layers and the principles of original horizontality and lateral extension -- James Hutton (1726-1797): Uniformitarianism as the central principle of historical geology -- Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859): Unification of the natural sciences -- Georges Cuvier (1769-1832): Reality of extinction of past life-forms -- William Smith (1769-1839): Creation of the world's first geological map -- Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875): Gradual nature of earth's processes -- Alfred Wegener (1880-1930): Theory of continental drift -- Arthur Holmes (1890-1965): Estimation of the earth's age -- Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002):Theory of punctuated equilibrium.
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