Essay Review: Collectors of Worlds: Writing the History of Geohistory,Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution,Worlds before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
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Essay Review: Collectors of Worlds: Writing the History of Geohistory,Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution,Worlds before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
See, for example RudwickMartin, Scenes from deep time: Early pictorial representations of the prehistoric world (Chicago, 1992), and RudwickMartin, “Caricature as a source for the history of science: De la Beche's anti-Lyellian sketches of 1831”, Isis, lxvi (1975), 1975–60.
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GohauGabriel, History of geology, transl. by CarozziAlbert V.CarozziMarguerite (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.
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For the industrial dimension, see, for example, LucierPaul, “A plea for applied geology”, History of science, xxxvii (1999), 1–36; VeneerLeucha, “Provincial geology and the Industrial Revolution”, Endeavour, xxx/2 (June 2006), 76–80; KnellSimon J., The culture of English geology 1815–51: A science revealed through its collecting (Aldershot, 2000); and HeringmanNoah, Romantic rocks: Aesthetic geology (Ithaca and London, 2004), esp. introduction, “Interchapter”, and chap. 4. For commercial geology see, for instance, MorusIwanSchafferSimonSecordJames A., “Scientific London”, in London: World city, 1800–1840, ed. by FoxCelina (New Haven, 1992), 129–42; SecordJames A., Victorian sensation: The extraordinary publication, reception, and secret authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chicago, 2000); and O'ConnorRalph, The earth on show: Fossils and the poetics of popular science 1802–1856 (Chicago, 2007).
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TudorAndrew, Theories of film (London, 1974), 139.
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See Secord, Victorian sensation (ref. 3), “Introduction”, and O'Connor, The earth on show (ref. 3).
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BeerGillian, Darwin's plots: Evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and nineteenth-century fiction (Cambridge, 2008); and BeerGillian, Open fields: Science in cultural encounter (Oxford, 1999).
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SecordJames A., “King of Siluria: Roderick Murchison and the imperial theme in nineteenth-century British geology”, Victorian studies, xxv (1982), 413–43.
