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Geological history turned upside down

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Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

  • Martin J. S. Rudwick
University of Chicago Press: 2008. 614 pp. $49.00 9780226731285 | ISBN: 978-0-2267-3128-5

Geologists study Earth by applying principles borrowed from more fundamental sciences. Yet geology also has its own set of attitudes that have accrued during the discipline's long history. The nature of geological inquiry, involving a synthesis of historical and philosophical reasoning, lies at the heart of Martin Rudwick's fine new book.

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  1. Victor R. Baker is Regents' Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources, Planetary Sciences and Geosciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA, and ex-president of the Geological Society of America. baker@hwr.arizona.edu ,

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