『Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform』

Martin J. S. Rudwick

(2008年刊行,The University of Chicago Press, xxiv+614 pp., ISBN:9780226731285 [hbk] → 版元ページ

【目次】
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments xix
A note on footnotes, references, and quotations


Introduction

PART ONE

1. Cuvier's model for geohistory (1817--25)
2. Monsters from deep time (1819--24)
3. The new stratigraphy (1817--25)
4. Outlines of life's history (1818--27)
5. Ancient monsters on land (1818--25)
6. Geological deluge and biblical Flood (1819--24)
7. The role of actual causes (1818--24)
8. The dynamic earth (1818--24)

PART TWO

9. The engine of geohistory (1824--29)
10. The Tertiary gateway (1824--27)
11. The geologists' time-machine (1825--31)
12. A directional history of life (1825--31)
13. The last revolution (1824--30)
14. The last mass extinction (1826--31)
15. The centrality of central France (1826--28)
16. Men among the mammoths? (1825--30)
17. The specter of transmutation (1825--29)

PART THREE

18. Lyell and Auvergne geology (1827--28)
19. A geological Grand Tour (1828)
20. Lyell in European context (1829--30)
21. Geology's guiding principles (1830)
22. "The Huttonian theory rediviva" (1830--31)
23. Promoting Lyell's "Principles" (1830--31)
24. The uniformity of life (1831--32)
25. Completing Lyell's "Principles" (1832--33)
26. Geohistory in retrospect (1833)

PART FOUR

27. Challenges to Lyell's geotheory (1832--35)
28. The human species in geohistory (1830--37)
29. Buckland's designful geohistory (1832--36)
30. The progression of life (1833--39)
31. Imagining geohistory (1831--40)
32. Lyell's geotheory dismembered (1834-40)
33. Actual causes on trial (1834-39)
34. Explaining erratics (1833-40)
35. Snowball earth? (1835-40)
36. Taking stock for the future (1840-1845)


Concluding (Un)scientific Postscript


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Index