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See, for example Rudwick Martin , Scenes from deep time: Early pictorial representations of the prehistoric world (Chicago, 1992), and Rudwick Martin , “Caricature as a source for the history of science: De la Beche's anti-Lyellian sketches of 1831”, Isis, lxvi (1975), 1975–60.

Gohau Gabriel , History of geology, transl. by Carozzi Albert V. Carozzi Marguerite (New Brunswick, 1990), also offered a history of the emergence of geology as a historical science, to which Rudwick's work here is indebted in obvious ways.

For the industrial dimension, see, for example, Lucier Paul , “A plea for applied geology”, History of science, xxxvii (1999), 1–36; Veneer Leucha , “Provincial geology and the Industrial Revolution”, Endeavour, xxx/2 (June 2006), 76–80; Knell Simon J. , The culture of English geology 1815–51: A science revealed through its collecting (Aldershot, 2000); and Heringman Noah , Romantic rocks: Aesthetic geology (Ithaca and London, 2004), esp. introduction, “Interchapter”, and chap. 4. For commercial geology see, for instance, Morus Iwan Schaffer Simon Secord James A. , “Scientific London”, in London: World city, 1800–1840, ed. by Fox Celina (New Haven, 1992), 129–42; Secord James A. , Victorian sensation: The extraordinary publication, reception, and secret authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chicago, 2000); and O'Connor Ralph , The earth on show: Fossils and the poetics of popular science 1802–1856 (Chicago, 2007).

Tudor Andrew , Theories of film (London, 1974), 139.

See Secord , Victorian sensation (ref. 3), “Introduction”, and O'Connor , The earth on show (ref. 3).

Beer Gillian , Darwin's plots: Evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and nineteenth-century fiction (Cambridge, 2008); and Beer Gillian , Open fields: Science in cultural encounter (Oxford, 1999).

Secord James A. , “King of Siluria: Roderick Murchison and the imperial theme in nineteenth-century British geology”, Victorian studies, xxv (1982), 413–43.