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Dutch pioneers of the earth sciences

Door Jacques L.R. Touret e.a.

Categorie
Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer
#229105
Titel
Dutch pioneers of the earth sciences
Auteur
Touret, Jacques L.R. & Robert P.W. Visser
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
Amsterdam, KNAW
Jaar van uitgave
2004
ISBN10
9069843897
ISBN13
9789069843896
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands, volume 5
Samenvatting
Dutch pioneers of the earth sciences 1e druk is een boek van R. P. W. Visser uitgegeven bij Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9789069843896

The papers collected in this volume, given at a Dutch history of science symposium, present a historical survey of Dutch contributions to earth science. Topics covered include: the pioneering stratigraphic studies of the eighteenth-century naturalist Francq van Berkhey; the 1863 geology lectures of Staring and his geological map of the Netherlands; the Maastricht Cretaceous finds in the emergence of Dutch vertebrate palaeontology; and the founding of ground water hydrology in the Netherlands.
The book also features two hallmark studies by Dutch scholars: a previously unpublished mineralogical treatise by Wiechmann, and a study of the suitability of
... (Lees verder)Hauy's crystal models to identify minerals. These collected papers together form a signal contribution to the Dutch history of science.
Pagina's
200
Conditie
Redelijk — Annotations and underlinings with pencil; spine sunned
Prijs
€ 8,00

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