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科学是关于自然世界的经验,理论和实践知识,所有的科学知识汇聚为科学文献,是研究科学和科学史必不可少的工具,科学文献中的权威著作便是科学元典,科学元典是科学进一步发展的灯塔和坐标。科学史原始文献,分希腊科学、物理学、地理学、动物学、逻辑学、数学、心理学,出版七卷,约6000页。
《科学元典:地理学》是“科学元典”系列丛书之一,本书汇集了西方多位著名的地质学家有关地质学知识的著作进行了整理和精选。本书为了根据作者的出生时间为顺序,系统地呈现了地质学的发展脉络,及其理论的修正。本书采用了经典的编辑版本。选文配有目录和索引,资料详尽。本书为全英文影印版,并配有精美的插图,方便读者参阅。 -
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目录
GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
THE EARTH AND THE SEA
Agricola [Georg Bauer] (1494–1555)
THE STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH AND THE FORCES WHICH CHANGE
THE EARTH
George Owen (1552–1613)
THE COURSE OF ROCK SEAMS IN PENBROKSHIRE
René Descartes (1596–1650)
RATIONAL BASIS FOR HYPOTHESIS OF CREATION OF SOLAR SYSTEM
THE COMPOSITION OF THE EARTH
Atbanasius Kircber (1602-1680)
THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD
Pierre Perrault (1611–1680)
THE SOURCE OF WATER IN SPRINGS AND RIVERS
Bernbard Varenius (1622–1650)
THE FIRST PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
Robert Boyle (1627–1691)
CONDITIONS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
Robert Hooke (1635–1703)
EARTHQUAKES
Nicolaus Steno (1638–1687)
OF SOLIDS NATURALLY CONTAINED WITHIN SOLIDS
Gottfried Wilbelm Leibnitz (1646–1716)
THE EARTH ORIGINALLY MOLTEN
Benoit de Maillet (1656–1738)
STBATA FORMED BENEATH THE SEA
Jobn Woodward (1665–1722)
EARTH HISTORY AND THE DELUGE
Jobn Strachey (1671-1743)
OBSERVATIONS ON THE STRATA IN THE SOMERSETSHIRE COAL FIELDS
Lewis Evans (c. 1700–1756)
THE PIIYSIOGRAPHY OF THE MIDDLE BRITISH COLONIES IN AMERICA 55
Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Bufon (1707–1788)
THE COLLISION HYPOTHESIS OF EARTH ORIGIN
EPOCHS OF THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH
Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (1712-1784)
VALLEYS FORMED BY STREAM EROSION
Giovanni Arduino (1713-1795)
ORIGIN OF MARBLE AND DOLOMITE
Jeanne Etienne Guettard (1715–1786)
MAP SHOWING THE ROCKS THAT TRAVERSE FRANCE AND ENGLAND
THE FLUVIATILE ORIGIN OF THE PUDDíNGSTONES [CONGLOMERATES
OF THE PARIS BASIN
Jobn Micbell (1724-1793)
THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF EARTHQUAKES
THE EARTH COMPOSED OF REGULAR AND UNIFORM STRATA
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
A NATURALISTIC HYPOTHESIS OF EARTH ORIGIN
Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1805)
THE VOLCANIC ORIGIN OF BASALT
AGE DETERMINATION IN A VOLCANIC REGION
James Hutton (1726-1797)
THEORY OF THE EARTH
Lazarro Spallanzani (1729-1799)
ON BASALTIFORM LAVAS AND THE ROLE OF GASES IN VOLCANIC
ERUPTIONS
Henry Cavendish (1731–1810)
EXPERIMENTS TO DETERMINE THE DENSITY OF THE EARTH
Jean Baptiste Louis Rome de l'Isle (1736-1790)
LAWS OF CRYSTALLIZATION
Rudolpb Eric Raspe (1737–1794)
COLUMNAR JOINTING IN BASALTIC LAVA
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