Reading the Rocks
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A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A rich and exuberant group
biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to
excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These
first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of
gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet
boosting their numbers, expanding their learning and increasing
their findings were clergymen, academics - and women. This lively
and eclectic collection of characters brought passion, eccentricity
and towering intellect to geology and Brenda Maddox in Reading the
Rocks does them full justice, bringing them to vivid life. The new
science of geology was pursued by this assorted band because it
opened a window on Earth's ancient past. They showed great courage
in facing the conflict between geology and Genesis that immediately
presented itself: for the rocks and fossils being dug up showed
that the Earth was immeasurably old, rather than springing from a
creation made in the six days that the Bible claimed. It is no
coincidence that Charles Darwin was a keen geologist. The
individual stories of these first geologists, their hope and fears,
triumphs and disappointments, the theological, philosophical and
scientific debates their findings provoked, and the way that as a
group, they were to change irrevocably and dramatically our
understanding of the world is told by Brenda Maddox with a
storyteller's skill and a fellow scientist's understanding. The
effect is absorbing, revelatory and strikingly original.
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Bloomsbury Publishing ,
Brenda Maddox
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Bloomsbury Publishing,
Brenda Maddox
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Slovart
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