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Scenes from Deep Time

Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World

Author: Martin J.S. Rudwick  

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Informed by fossil discoveries, scientists and artists collaborated during the years before Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published to produce images of a prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. This book explores the implications of reconstructing a past humans have never seen.

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Informed by fossil discoveries, scientists and artists collaborated during the years before Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published to produce images of a prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. This book explores the implications of reconstructing a past humans have never seen.

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How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.

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About the Author

Martin J. S. Rudwick is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, San Diego and affiliated scholar in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press
Published
15th December 1995
Edition
New edition
Pages
294
ISBN
9780226731056

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