Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life by Brenda Maddox

Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life

Brenda Maddox

287 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative inspiring slow-paced
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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 wea...

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