by Frängsmyr, Tore, Lindroth, Sten
fromUppsala studies in history of science
Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But all these splintered pieces h…
The Essential Naturalist offers a wide-ranging, eclectic collection of writings from more than eight centuries of observations of the natural world, from Leeuwenhoek to E.O. Wilson, from von Humboldt to Rachel Carson. Featuring commentaries by practicing scientists that offer pe…
Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But all these splintered pieces h…
Introduction: Buffon and the history of the Earth / Jan Zalasiewicz, Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Jacques Grinevald -- The epochs of nature -- First discourse -- First epoch: when the Earth and the planets took their form -- Second epoch: when matter, being consolidated, for…
"Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les Époques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of Russia and influenced Humboldt, D…
In seven epochs, Buffon reveals the main features of an evolving Earth, from its hard rock substrate to the sedimentary layers on top, from the minerals and fossils found within these layers to volcanoes, earthquakes, and rises and falls in sea level--and he even touches on age-…
Covers the processes and life forms of the natural world.
Stephen Jay Gould was not only a leading paleontologist and evolutionary theorist, he was also a humanist with an enduring interest in the history and philosophy of science. The extraordinary range of Gould's work was underpinned by a richly nuanced and deeply insightful worldvi…
