Reading the Rocks : How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life by Maddox, Brenda

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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 1st printing, xii + 257 pages, illustrated, notes, select bibliography, index. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2017.

London: Bloomsbury Publishing. Very Good/Very Good. 2017. First Edition, First Impression. Hard Cover. 8vo 1408879581 Dust jacket complete, unclipped, rubbed area on rear. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. A couple of marks. Plates. 254 pages clean and tight. A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. Some came from the ranks of gentlemen with the wealth to support their interests, yet others were clergymen, academics - and women. This lively and assorted band brought passion, eccentricity and towering intellect to geology. This new science demanded great courage from its followers. In revealing Earth's ancient past, its findings presented a conflict with Genesis: for the rocks and fossils clearly showed that the Earth had not sprung from a creation made in six days as the Bible claimed, but was instead millennia old. Fossils also… Read More

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