Fossils. The oldest Treasures that ever lived.

Language: English

Published by Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1983

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231 S. Besitzstempel. Eine Ecke bestossen, sonst gut. - Knowledge and Museum -- Natural History Museums and their Treasures- Science as an Experience -- The Beginnings of Knowledge and Understanding -- The First Perceptions -- The Very First Collections -- The Renaissance-the Age of the Intellectual Giants -- The 18th Century -- The Beginnings of Scientific Palaeontology -- Great Theories -- Only a Slab of Transitional Limestone In the Matter of Striatellus Ostracodae -- Types-Originals-Sites Schlotheim Types Fossil Sites-Our Sources of Knowledge -- Archaeopteryx, the Oldest Known Bird -- Archaeopteryx and Darwinism -- In Search of Ancestors -- A Mosaic of Different Features -- New Finds-New Knowledge -- The Legacy of the Flesh-eating Dinosaurs -- "Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds" -- Running or Climbing? -- The Berlin Specimen of the Primitive Bird Archaeopteryx -- Confusion over the Feathers of Archaeopteryx -- Astonishing Agreement -- From a Modern Viewpoint -- Heinroth's Experiment -- Above or Below? -- The Fossil Site -- The Strange Impression of the Left Wing -- The Miracle of the Seven States of Preservation of Fossil Plant Remains -- Transformation to Stone -- Mineral Substances Infiltrate Plant Cells and Enclose Them -- Plant Substance Becomes Coal -- Preservation in Transparent Resin -- Imprints of Plant Remains Left behind in Sediments -- Preservation in Coal and Fluviatile Sediments -- The Moulding of Perishable Substance by the Immuration of Sessile Animals -- A Life for the Saurians -- The Saurians of Tendaguru -- The Biggest of all the Saurians -- Dicraeosaurus -- The Cousin from America -- Warmblooded or Not? -- Predatory Saurians -- Ornithischians -- The Spiny-Tailed Saurian -- The Bird-Footed Saurian -- The End of the Saurians -- Plateosaurus -- The Many Different Forms of the Saurians Gondwana -- Early Reptiles in Time and Space -- Mammal-like Reptiles -- The Reptile Breakthrough -- Turtles -- Great Ideas of the Laws of Development -- The Influence of Linne Development or Only Transformation -- The Influence of a Site on the Information Obtained -- The Complicated Beginning -- The Mysterious Leaf-Bifurcation -- Intermediate Forms, Transitional Stage or Important Rudiments for Later? -- A Deviation from the Established Path of Development -- Strange Fruits -- The First Network Vein System -- A Great New Mystery-the Glossopteris Plant. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000 Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag. …

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Title
Fossils. The oldest Treasures that ever lived.
Author
Daber, Rudolf and Jochen Helms:
Publisher
Leipzig: Edition Leipzig
Publication year
1983
Condition
Wie neu
Dust jacket
Dust Jacket Included
Language
English
Item weight
2,000 grams
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