The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology
The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology by Martin J. S. Rudwick
English | June 15, 1985 | ISBN: 088202163X, 0226731030 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 20.8 MB
English | June 15, 1985 | ISBN: 088202163X, 0226731030 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 20.8 MB
The Meaning Of Fossils is an absorbing history of changing views of what fossils are and how they contribute to an understanding of the history of the earth.
"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field."—Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology
"Rudwick has not merely written the first book-length history of palaeontology in the English language; he has written a very intelligent one. . . . His accounts of sources are rounded and organic: he treats the structure of arguments as Cuvier handled fossil bones."—Roy S. Porter, History of Science