Dutch pioneers of the earth sciences.

Visser, R.P.W. & J.L.R. Touret (eds.)

ISBN 10: 9069843897 / ISBN 13: 9789069843896

Published by Edita-the Publishing House of the Royal, 2004

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Amsterdam : KNAW, 2004. Hardcover. 216 pp. 5 ills. (History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands, volume 5). - The papers collected in this volume, given at a Dutch history of science symposium, present a historical survey of Dutch contributions to earth science. It includes a wide variety of subjects: the pioneering stratigraphic studies of the 18th-century naturalist Francq van Berkhey, Dutch contributions to the basalt controversy, geology in the Belgian provinces, the geology lectures (1863) of Staring and his geological map of the Netherlands, the mineral work of Hermann Vogelsang, the Maastricht Cretaceous finds in the emergence of Dutch vertebrate palaeontology, and the founding of groundwater hydrology in the Netherlands (1850-1950). The book also features two hallmark studies by Dutch scholars: a previously unpublished mineralogical treatise by Wiechmann, and a study of the suitability of Hauy's crystal models to identify minerals. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9789069843896. Keywords : HISTORY OF SCIENCE, geology.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dutch pioneers of the earth sciences.
• Publisher: Edita-the Publishing House of the Royal
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9069843897
• ISBN 13: 9789069843896
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: as new

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Synopsis

The papers collected in this volume, given at a Dutch history of science symposium, present a historical survey of Dutch contributions to earth science. Topics covered include: the pioneering stratigraphic studies of the eighteenth-century naturalist Francq van Berkhey; the 1863 geology lectures of Staring and his geological map of the Netherlands; the Maastricht Cretaceous finds in the emergence of Dutch vertebrate palaeontology; and the founding of ground water hydrology in the Netherlands.

The book also features two hallmark studies by Dutch scholars: a previously unpublished mineralogical treatise by Wiechmann, and a study of the suitability of Haüy's crystal models to identify minerals. These collected papers together form a signal contribution to the Dutch history of science.

About the Author

Florike Egmond is a postdoctoral fellow at the Leiden Scaliger Institute.

Paul G. Hoftijzer is professor in the history of the book in the early modern period and senior lecture in the Department of Book and Digital Media Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Robert P. W. Visser is the Teylers Professor of the History of the Natural Sciences at Leiden University and senior lecturer in the Institute for the History of Natural Science at Utrecht University.