The Earth and Its Rhythms
by [WOMEN IN SCIENCE ]. Schuchert, Charles and Clara M[ae] LeVene
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1927. . 8vo, full maroon cloth, front gilt with vignette of lake in foreground with mountains in the rear; very bright copy with slight wear to the foot of the spine INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS on the front free endpaper to Eliza Brush Prisson, the widow of the great Yale geologist Louis Valentine Prisson.LeVene collaborated with Schuchert on several scientific works. The present book's "drawings of geologic features and of ancient forms of life are the work of Miss M. Alice Hubbard, Mrs. Louise Nash and Miss Lisbeth B. Kraus...." A interesting joint effort by four women with scientific training at a time when this field was dominated by men.
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- Bookseller
- Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3291
- Title
- The Earth and Its Rhythms
- Author
- [WOMEN IN SCIENCE ]. Schuchert, Charles and Clara M[ae] LeVene
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1927.
- Pages
- Profusely illustrated with halftones; line drawings, maps, most in the text; xvi and 410
- Keywords
- SCIENCE
- Bookseller catalogs
- WOMEN;
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Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books
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Charlottesville , Virginia
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