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- catalog abstract ""Thinking about the Earth is a history from Antiquity to the present of ideas about the planet on which we live. Not a history of geology, it instead recounts the geological tradition of Western science, beginning with the organic earth-views of the earliest cultures and ending with the Gaia hypothesis advanced by Lovelock. After a survey of topics ranging from the mythopoetic, mechanical, and historicist views of the earth - from early maps and other representations of the earth to modern seismology and geochemistry - Oldroyd returns us to the idea that our water planet may in a sense be regarded as a living entity, or at least that life is an essential feature of its behavior. If the history of ideas about the earth can teach us one thing, Oldroyd argues, it is that interpretations are constantly changing. To suppose that interpretations currently in favor will stand for all time is, he says, an act of hubris."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b9711493.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""Thinking about the Earth is a history from Antiquity to the present of ideas about the planet on which we live. Not a history of geology, it instead recounts the geological tradition of Western science, beginning with the organic earth-views of the earliest cultures and ending with the Gaia hypothesis advanced by Lovelock. After a survey of topics ranging from the mythopoetic, mechanical, and historicist views of the earth - from early maps and other representations of the earth to modern seismology and geochemistry - Oldroyd returns us to the idea that our water planet may in a sense be regarded as a living entity, or at least that life is an essential feature of its behavior. If the history of ideas about the earth can teach us one thing, Oldroyd argues, it is that interpretations are constantly changing. To suppose that interpretations currently in favor will stand for all time is, he says, an act of hubris."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-386) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxx, 410 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0674883829".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in the history and philosophy of the earth sciences".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog subject "551/.09 20".
- catalog subject "Geology History.".
- catalog subject "QE11 .O43 1996".
- catalog title "Thinking about the earth : a history of ideas in geology / by David R. Oldroyd.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".