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The Geological Society has much to be proud of in its two hundred years of history. Not only is it the oldest society of its kind in the world, but it has also seen many of the important developments in the science played out within its premises.
Gordon Herries Davies has expertly and entertainingly laid out this narrative for us, steering a skillful course between the necessary facts and the anecdotes that bring these facts alive. Institutional histories can be dull affairs - a litany of minutes and memoranda - but this history suffers from no such problem.
This book will appeal to the historian of science, geoscientists in all branches of the subject and anyone with an interest in the development of scientific ideas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Geological Society of London
Founded in 1807, the Geological Society of London is the oldest geological society in the world, and one of the largest publishers in the Earth sciences.
The Society publishes a wide range of high-quality peer-reviewed titles for academics and professionals working in the geosciences, and enjoys an enviable international reputation for the quality of its work.
The many areas in which we publish in include:
-Petroleum geology
-Tectonics, structural geology and geodynamics
-Stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleontology
-Volcanology, magmatic studies and geochemistry
-Remote sensing
-History of geology
-Regional geology guides
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............succeeds in making his book a record of events, but with his well-known fluent and expansive (indeed magisterial) style, he offers an accurate, informative, and elegant 'read'.
I would like to convey the impression, then, that this is a jolly kind of book. But it is also a work of serious scholarship, demonstrating the author s immense knowledge of the Society's history, and the relationship of that history to the social context in which geology evolved in Britain.
All in all, this is a fine book that does real credit both to the author and the GSL itself. GHD is renowned for his continuing use of a fountain pen. He has wielded it to great effect! --David Oldroyd, Metascience
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- PublisherGeological Society of London
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1862392145
- ISBN 13 9781862392144
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages378
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