Looking forward to the class visit tomorrow for the history of geology.
Sections:
- Ancient Beginnings
- Plato; Aristotle; Seneca; Pliny.
- 16th-17th Centuries
- Georg Agricola; Kepler; Descartes; Burnet; Kircher; Steno.
- Fossils: Organic or Inorganic?
- Cesi and Stelluti; Steno; Woodward; Lhwyd; Beringer; Scheuchzer.
- 18th Century
- Strachey; Buffon; Werner; Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie; Basaltic mountains (1825); Hamilton’s Campi Phlegraei; John Michell; Saussure; Hutton.
- Reconstructing Pre-Human Worlds
- Hoet; Scheuchzer; Mary Anning; De la Beche; Hawkins; Figuier.
- William Smith and Geological Maps
- 1815 map and 13 other Smith publications; Cuvier and Brongniart.
- 19th Century
- Buckland (various); Lyell (various); De la Beche; Hugh Miller; Louis Agassiz (various); Charles Darwin (various); von Buch; Dutton.
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