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050 10 $aGE 50$bB677 2000
100 1 $aBowler, Peter J.
240 10 $aFontana history of the environmental sciences
245 14 $aThe earth encompassed :$ba history of the environmental sciences / $cPeter J. Bowler.
250 $a1st Amer. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bNorton,$c[2000]
300 $axvii, 634 p. ;$c21 cm.
490 1 $aThe Norton history of science
500 $aOriginally published: Fontana history of the environmental sciences. London : Norton, c1992.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe Problem of Perception -- Expanding Horizons -- Culture and Nature -- Science and Christian Tradition -- The Nature of Science -- The Scientific Method -- Science as a Social Activity -- Science and Ideology -- The Ancient and Medieval Worlds -- Greece and Rome -- Rival Cosmologies -- Plato and Aristotle -- Late Antiquity -- The Medieval Period -- Bestiaries and Herbals -- The Revival of Scholarship -- Renaissance and Revolution -- Humanism and the Natural World -- Secret Powers -- The Riches of Nature -- Animal, Vegetable and Mineral -- The Great Instauration -- Natural History and Revolution -- The Mechanical Philosophy -- Theories of the Earth -- Science in an Age of Reason -- Classification and Explanation -- The Earth Described -- The Origin of the Earth -- The Meaning of Fossils -- New Cosmogonies -- Fire and Water -- Neptunism -- Plutonism -- Nature and the Enlightenment -- The Diversity of Life -- The Classical Era -- The Social Environment -- The Argument from Design -- The System of Nature -- The Chain of Being -- System and Method -- Linnaeus -- The Economy of Nature -- Rural Harmony -- Maintaining the Balance -- The Geography of Life -- The Possibilities of Change -- Filling in the Gaps -- Buffon -- Materialism and the Origin of Life -- Natural Progress -- The Heroic Age -- The Organization of Science -- Europe Surveys the Earth -- America Catches Up -- A New Geography -- Humboldt and the Cosmos -- Humboldtian Science -- The Geological Record -- Fossils and Stratigraphy -- The Ancient Rocks -- Climate and Time -- The Cooling Earth -- Ice Ages -- Mountains and Continents -- The Shrinking Earth -- Floating Continents -- The Rate of Change -- Catastrophist Geology -- The Uniformity of Nature -- The Age of the Earth -- The Philosophical Naturalists -- Knowledge and Power -- Professionals and Amateurs -- Science and Politics -- The Pattern of Nature -- Chains, Trees and Circles -- Form and Function -- The Geography of Plants -- Botanical Provinces -- Historical Biogeography -- The History of Life -- The Extinction of Species -- Progressive Development -- The Process of Change -- Transmutation before Darwin -- The Origins of Darwin's Theory -- Natural Selection -- The Age of Evolution -- Exploit or Conserve? -- Science and Empire -- The Professionalization of Biology -- Early Conservationism -- The Darwinian Revolution -- Interpretations of Darwinism -- The Darwinians -- Anti-Darwinism -- The Tree of Life -- Evolutionary Morphology -- Fossils and Ancestors -- Human Origins -- Evolution and the Environment -- Paths of Migration -- Evolution and Adaptation -- The Origins of Ecology -- The New Biology -- Plant Ecology -- The Earth Sciences -- Science in the Modern World -- Expansion and Fragmentation -- The Age of Big Science -- The End of Exploration -- A Global Physics -- Weather Patterns -- Ice Ages Again -- Drifting Continents -- Geology in Crisis -- Wegener's Initiative -- The Reaction to Wegener -- Plate Tectonics -- Paleomagnetism -- Sea-Floor Spreading -- Past and Present -- Darwinism Triumphant -- Science and Ideology -- Images of Power -- Nature and Culture -- The Evolutionary Synthesis -- Parallel Evolution -- The Defence of Lamarckism -- Population Genetics -- The New Darwinism -- The Implications of Darwinism -- Animal Behaviour -- Mind and Brain -- Evolution and Ethology -- Primate Studies -- Sociobiology -- Ecology and Environmentalism -- Changing Values -- Subduing the Wild -- The Rise of Environmentalism -- Ecology Comes of Age -- Plant Ecology -- Animal Ecology -- Marine Ecology -- Modern Ecology -- Populations and Systems -- Ecology and the Environmental Crisis.
650 0 $aEnvironmental sciences$xHistory.
830 0 $aNorton history of science.
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