Images of the Earth
Jordanova, Ludmilla and Porter, Roy (eds.). 1997. Images of the Earth: essays in the history of the environmental sciences. 2nd edition (Chalfont St Giles: British Society for the History of Science), 293pp.
ISBN 0-906450-12-81979, reprinted 1981, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, 1997. This is the 2nd edition.
Proceedings of a conference, ‘New Perspectives in the History of Geology’ held at New Hall, Cambridge, April 1977.
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“Taken individually, each of these essays is a thoughtful and informative piece of scholarship.”
– BJHS
“The one theme that binds these essays together is the desire to free the history of science from the order of knowoledge created by science itself.”
– Science
“The eleven papers in this volume were selected to exemplify new approaches to the history of geology.” “…whether readers view this volume as marking the watershed in the history of geology that the editors intend, they will find in it a number of useful and provocative essays.”
– Isis
Table of Contents
| page | author | title |
| viii | Jordanova, Ludmilla Porter, Roy | Preface to the second edition |
| 01 | Jordanova, Ludmilla Porter, Roy | Introduction |
| Section I. Geology and Belief | ||
| 17 | Cantor, Geoffrey | Revelation and the cyclical cosmos of John Hutchinson |
| 37 | Grant, R. | Hutton’s theory of the Earth |
| 53 | Brooke, John Hedley | The natural theology of the geologists: some theological strata |
| Section II. The Language of Environmental Science | ||
| 77 | Rudwick, Martin J. S. | Transposed concepts from the human sciences in the early work of Charles Lyell |
| 93 | Pointon, Marcia | Geology and landscape painting in nineteenth-century England |
| Section III. Earth Science and Discipline Boundaries | ||
| 127 | Jordanova, Ludmilla | Earth science and environmental medicine: the synthesis of the late Enlightenment |
| 153 | Brock, W. H. | Chemical geology or geological chemistry? |
| 175 | Boylan, Patrick J. | The controversy of the Moulin-Quignon jaw: the role of Hugh Falconer |
| 203 | Allen, David Elliston | The lost limb: geology and natural history |
| Section IV. The Social History of Geology | ||
| 217 | Torrens, Hugh | Geological communication in the Bath area in the last half of the eightennth century |
| 247 | Weindling, Paul Julian | Geological controversy and its historiography: the prehistory of the Geological Society of London |
| 273 | Jordanova, Ludmilla | Postscript and bibliography |
| 269 | Notes on contributors | |
| 287 | Index |