The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Softcover

Rudwick, Martin J. S. J. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226731030 ISBN 13: 9780226731032

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1985

Synopsis

"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field."—Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology

"Rudwick has not merely written the first book-length history of palaeontology in the English language; he has written a very intelligent one. . . . His accounts of sources are rounded and organic: he treats the structure of arguments as Cuvier handled fossil bones."—Roy S. Porter, History of Science

About this title

About the Author

Martin J. S. Rudwick is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, San Diego and affiliated scholar in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

From the Back Cover

The Meaning Of Fossils is an absorbing history of changing views of what fossils are and how they contribute to an understanding of the history of the earth.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226731030
• ISBN 13: 9780226731032
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304