Kennedy, Barbara Inventing the Earth Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740
1. Edition December 2005 119.- Euro 2005. 176 Pages, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4051-0187-5 - John Wiley & Sons
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Detailed description 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.
