Discovering the ice ages [electronic resource] : international reception and consequences for a historical understanding of climate / by Tobias Krüger ; translated by Ann M. Hentschel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: History of science and medicine library ; v. 37Publication details: Leiden : Brill, 2013.Description: xix, 534 p. : illUniform titles:
  • Entdeckung der Eiszeiten. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 551.7/92 23
LOC classification:
  • QE697 .K7813 2013eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- How Erratic Blocks Caught the Eye of Science -- Glacier Advances and Icy Theories : 1810-1830 -- Glacier and Ice-Age Theories in the First Half of the 1830's -- The Grand Synthesis -- International Reception of Glacial Theory -- The Search for Causes of the Ice Ages -- Conclusions.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- How Erratic Blocks Caught the Eye of Science -- Glacier Advances and Icy Theories : 1810-1830 -- Glacier and Ice-Age Theories in the First Half of the 1830's -- The Grand Synthesis -- International Reception of Glacial Theory -- The Search for Causes of the Ice Ages -- Conclusions.

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