Histoires de la Terre

This book is based on the proceedings of a highly original interna tional conference entitled Histoires de la Terre which took place at th University of Sheffield from 30 March to 1 April 2007. Its chapter explore how Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment developments i the earth sciences and related fields (palaeontology, mining, agron omy, archaeology, seismology, oceanography, evolutionary theory etc.) impacted on contemporary French culture. They reveal that geo logical ideas were a much more...