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Inventing the Earth : Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740, PDF eBook

Inventing the Earth : Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740 PDF

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This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the past 250 years.


  • Chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent different views of the Earth over the last 250 years.
  • Uses as its central viewpoint changing ideas about the significance of the action of rain and rivers on the Earth s surface.
  • Shows how our contemporary truths have come to be accepted and exposes the frailty of even the most impeccably scientific visions of the Earth.

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