The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology (History of Science Library) - Hardcover

Martin J. S Rudwick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 088202163X ISBN 13: 9780882021638

Publisher: Science History Publications, 1976

Synopsis

"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field."—Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology

"Rudwick has not merely written the first book-length history of palaeontology in the English language; he has written a very intelligent one. . . . His accounts of sources are rounded and organic: he treats the structure of arguments as Cuvier handled fossil bones."—Roy S. Porter, History of Science

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Meaning Of Fossils is an absorbing history of changing views of what fossils are and how they contribute to an understanding of the history of the earth.

About the Author:

Martin J. S. Rudwick is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, San Diego and affiliated scholar in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Science History Publications
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 088202163X
• ISBN 13: 9780882021638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 287