NATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER AND THE CULTURE OF AMERICAN SCIENCE.

Livingstone, David N.

Published by The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa

About this Item

(1987), xiv, 395pp, index, five portraits of Shaler, exhaustive bibliography. VG+ in VG+ dj. A volume in the History of American Science and Technology Series. The first book length study of the man who served as Harvard's Professor of Geology and Paleontology during the Darwinian era. Shaler, (1841-1906), born near Newport, Kentucky, was a student of Louis Agassiz and had a successful multi-faceted career as geologist, geographer, educator, humanist, and poet. He published several Kentucky Geological Surveys in his position as Kentucky state geologist. He also wrote a history of the state, Elizabethan verse plays, and works on natural history, and transportation.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: NATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER AND THE CULTURE OF AMERICAN SCIENCE.
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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