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During a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth - and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Bursting the Limits of Time is a herculean effort by one of the world's foremost experts on the history of geology and paleontology to illuminate this scientific breakthrough that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus and Darwin did. Rudwick examines here the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together. He explores who was responsible for the discovery of the earth's history, refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth, and details how the study of the history of the earth helped define a new branch of science called geology. "Bursting the Limits of Time" is the first detailed account of this monumental phase in the history of science.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues History of science

• Full title: Bursting the Limits of Time
• Author: Martin J. S. Rudwick
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 732
• EAN: 9780226731131
• ISBN: 0226731138
• ID: 04548959
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 1420 g
• Dimensions: 256 × 178 × 49 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. April 2007

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