Philosophy of geohistory, 1785-1970.
By: Edited by Claude C. Albritton, Jr.
Series: Benchmark papers in geology, v. 13
Publisher: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Stroudsburg, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Earth sciences -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Toulmin, S. E. The discovery of time.; title: Hutton, J. The system of the earth, its duration, and stability.; title: Playfair, J. Excerpts from Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth.; title: Lyell, C. Prejudices which have retarded the progress of geology.; title: Whewell, W. The two antagonist doctrines of geology.; title: Chamberlin, T. C. The method of multiple working hypotheses.; title: Gilbert, G. K. The origin of hypotheses, illustrated by the discussion of a topographic problem.; title: Davis, W. M. The value of outrageous geological hypotheses.; title: Johnson, D. W. Role of analysis in scientific investigation.; title: Mackin, J. H. Rational and empirical methods of investigation in geology.; title: Anderson, C. A. Simplicity in structural geology.; title: Hubbert, M. K. Critique of the principle of uniformity.; title: Simpson, G. G. Uniformitarianism.; title: Hooykaas, R. Catastrophism in geology, its scientific character in relation to actualism and uniformitarianism.; title: Kitts, D. B. Geologic time.