Essay Review: The History of Palaeontology: The Meaning of Fossils

Whewell W. , History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present times (London, 1837).

Rudwick M. J. S. , The meaning of fossils (London, 1972), Preface.

Rudwick , op. cit., Preface.

Rudwick M. J. S. , “Uniformity and progression: Reflections on the structure of geological theory in the age of Lyell”, in Roller D. H. D. (ed.), Perspectives in the history of science and technology (Norman, Oklahoma, 1971).

Toulmin Stephen , Human understanding (Oxford, 1972), i, esp. sect. i, “The problem of conceptual change”.

Rudwick , The meaning of fossils, chs 3 and 4.

Rudwick , op. cit., Preface.

Cf. for example, Haber Francis C. , “Fossils and the idea of a process of time in natural history”, in Glass B. Temkin O. and Straus W. L. Jr , Forerunners. of Darwin (Baltimore, 1959).

Cf. Wilson L. , “The intellectual background to Lyell's Principles of geology 1830–1833”, in Schneer C. (ed.), Toward a history of geology (Cambridge, Mass., 1969); idem, Charles Lyell: The years to 1841: The revolution in geology (New Haven, 1972); Rudwick M. J. S. , “Lyell on Etna and the antiquity of the earth”, in Schneer C. (ed.), Toward a history of geology (Cambridge, Mass., 1969); “Uniformity and progression” cited above, ref. 4.

Ravetz J. R. , Scientific knowledge and its social problems (Oxford, 1971). Rudwick , The meaning of fossils, 44.

Rudwick , op. cit., Preface.