The epochs of nature
Record details
- ISBN: 022639543X
- ISBN: 9780226395432
- ISBN: 022639557X
- ISBN: 9780226395579
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxxiv, 190 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translation of: Les époques de la nature. 1778. Édition critique avec le manuscrit, une introduction et des notes par Jacques Roger. Paris : Éditions du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1962 (Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Série C, Sciences de la terre ; nouv. sér., t. 10). |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Buffon and the history of the Earth / Jan Zalasiewicz, Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Jacques Grinevald -- The epochs of nature. First discourse. First epoch: When the Earth and the planets took their form ; Second epoch: When matter, being consolidated, formed the interior rock of the globe and the great vitrescible masses that are at its surface ; Third epoch: When the waters covered our continents ; Fourth epoch: When the waters retreated and the volcanoes became active ; Fifth epoch: When the elephants and the other animals of the South lived in the North ; Sixth epoch: When the separation of continents was made ; Seventh and last epoch: When the power of man has assisted that of nature -- Justifying notes to the facts reported in the Epochs of nature. |
Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed March 11, 2019). |
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