From Mineralogy to Geology
Subtitle: The Foundations of a Science, 1650-1830 (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 2, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780226469478
Subjects: Geochemistry; History of science; Mineralogy; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Geology (General); Science; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences - General; Science / Earth Sciences; Earth sciences; History
First sentence: In this book I attempt to answer questions that puzzled me as an undergraduate studying geology in the 1960s, when foundational issues were crowded out by the mass of material to be covered.