Inventing the Earth

Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740

• Author(s): Barbara Kennedy,
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Pages: 176
• ISBN_10: 1405172665
  ISBN_13: 9781405172660
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Science / Earth Sciences / General ,

Description:... This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the past 250 years.

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• Chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent different views of the Earth over the last 250 years.
  
• Uses as its central viewpoint changing ideas about the significance of the action of rain and rivers on the Earth’s surface.
  
• Shows how our contemporary “truths” have come to be accepted and exposes the frailty of even the most impeccably scientific visions of the Earth.