Download or read book An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England written by John Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England in a Catalogue of the English Fossils in the Collection of J Woodward M D With a Catalogue of the Foreign Fossils in the Collection written by John Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An attempt towards a natural history of the fossils of England written by John (Geologe) Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England written by John Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England written by John Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England in a Catalogue of the English Fossils in the Collection of J Woodward written by Woodward John 1665-1728 and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England in a Catalogue of the English Fossils in the Collection of J Woodward Livre written by John Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England written by Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books of Natural History Agriculture Gardening Chemistry c Now on Sale written by William Strong and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cabinets for the Curious written by Ken Arnold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last few years has, within museums, witnessed nothing short of a revolution. Worried that the very institution was itself in danger of becoming a dusty, forgotten, culturally irrelevant exhibit, vigorous efforts have been made to reshape the museum mission. Fearing that history was coming to be ignored by modern society, many institutions have instead marketed a de-intellectualised heritage, overly relying on computer technology to captivate a contemporary audience. The theme of this work is that we can do much to reassess the rationale that inspires contemporary collections through a study of seventeenth century museums. England's first museums were quite literally wonderful; founded that is on the disciplined application of the faculty of wonder. The type of wonder employed was not that post-Romantic idea of disbelief, but rather an active form of curiosity developed during the Renaissance, particularly by the individuals who set about gathering objects and founding museums to further their enquiries. The argument put forward in this book is that this museological practice of using objects actually to create, as well as disseminate knowledge makes just as much sense today as it did in the seventeenth century and, further, that the best way of reinvigorating contemporary museums, is to return to that form of wonder. By taking such a comparative approach, this book works both as a scholarly historical text, and as an historically informed analysis of the key issues facing today's museums. As such, it will prove essential reading both for historians of collecting and museums, and for anyone interested in the philosophies of modern museum management.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia written by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794.
Download or read book Unearthing the Underworld written by Ken McNamara and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A geological saga that digs deep, revealing how even the most ordinary rocks can be stepping stones to the hidden history of our planet. Unearthing the Underworld reveals the hidden world of rocks—the keepers of secrets of past environments, changing climates, and the pulse of life over billions of years. Even the most seemingly ordinary stone can tell us much about the history of this planet, opening vistas of ancient worlds of ice, raging floods, strange unbreathable atmospheres, and prehistoric worlds teeming with life. Remarkably, many types of rocks owe their existence to living organisms—from the remains of bodies of dead animals to rocks formed from rotting ancient forests, or even created by the activity of fungi, bacteria, and viruses. Anything but dull and uninteresting, rocks are intriguing portals that illuminate the secret underworld upon which we live.
Download or read book The Star Crossed Stone written by Ken McNamara and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils, or echinoids, have continually been among the most prized, from the Paleolithic era, when they decorated flint axes, to today, when paleobiologists study them for clues to the earth’s history. In The Star-Crossed Stone, Kenneth J. McNamara, an expert on fossil echinoids, takes readers on an incredible fossil hunt, with stops in history, paleontology, folklore, mythology, art, religion, and much more. Beginning with prehistoric times, when urchin fossils were used as jewelry, McNamara reveals how the fossil crept into the religious and cultural lives of societies around the world—the roots of the familiar five-pointed star, for example, can be traced to the pattern found on urchins. But McNamara’s vision is even broader than that: using our knowledge of early habits of fossil collecting, he explores the evolution of the human mind itself, drawing striking conclusions about humanity’s earliest appreciation of beauty and the first stirrings of artistic expression. Along the way, the fossil becomes a nexus through which we meet brilliant eccentrics and visionary archaeologists and develop new insights into topics as seemingly disparate as hieroglyphics, Beowulf, and even church organs. An idiosyncratic celebration of science, nature, and human ingenuity, The Star-Crossed Stone is as charming and unforgettable as the fossil at its heart.
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Download or read book Geoheritage and Geotourism written by Thomas A. Hose and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe's engagement from the late sixteenth century onwards in scientific Earth science inquiry has generated numerous and varied collections of minerals, rocks, and fossils, together with their associated archives, artworks and publications, forming a rich cultural geoheritage held in major private and especially royal and aristocratic collections, museums, universities, archives and libraries. The mines, quarries, geological structures, landforms, minerals, rocks and fossils - or geodiversity - that underpin these collections populate past and present-day Earth science literature. However, for too long their scientific, historic and cultural significance was not universally recognised and generally they were not accorded adequate resources and protection - or geoconservation. Hence, geotourism was developed in the 1990s to raise public awareness of Europe's geoheritage and geodiversity and to promote itsgeoconservation; the volume's theoretical essays and case studies examine these four core geoelements and provide a timely introduction for anyone interested in natural history museums, countryside management, and landscape-basedtourism. Dr Thomas A. Hose is an Honorary Research Associate in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol. He has pioneered the recognition of and research into geotourism, and is the author of the world's first doctoral thesis on the subject. Contributors: Kevin Crawford, Peter Davis, John E. Gordon. Thomas A. Hose, Jonathan G. Larwood, Slobodan B. Markovic, Martin Munt, Emmanuel Reynard, Nemanja Tomic, Djordjije A. Vasiljevic, Margaret Wood, Volker Wrede
