Philosophy of geohistory: 1785-1970
Toulmin, S. E. The discovery of time.--Hutton, J. The system of the earth, its duration, and stability.--Playfair, J. Excerpts from Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth.--Lyell, C. Prejudices which have retarded the progress of geology.--Whewell, W. The two antagonist doctrines of geol...
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Stroudsburg/Penns.
Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross
1975
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| Schriftenreihe: | Benchmark papers in geology
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Toulmin, S. E. The discovery of time.--Hutton, J. The system of the earth, its duration, and stability.--Playfair, J. Excerpts from Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth.--Lyell, C. Prejudices which have retarded the progress of geology.--Whewell, W. The two antagonist doctrines of geology.--Chamberlin, T. C. The method of multiple working hypotheses.--Gilbert, G. K. The origin of hypotheses, illustrated by the discussion of a topographic problem.--Davis, W. M. The value of outrageous geological hypotheses.--Johnson, D. W. Role of analysis in scientific investigation.--Mackin, J. H. Rational and empirical methods of investigation in geology.--Anderson, C. A. Simplicity in structural geology.--Hubbert, M. K. Critique of the principle of uniformity.--Simpson, G. G. Uniformitarianism.--Hooykaas, R. Catastrophism in geology, its scientific character in relation to actualism and uniformitarianism.--Kitts, D. B. Geologic time |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 386 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 0471020524 0-471-02052-4 |