Earth's Deep History - How it Was Discovered and Why it Matters - Grand Format

"Rudwick's book is authoritative and riveting, and its historical breadth is bound to make geology exciting for readers from both sciences and humanities." New Scientist. "With his talent for encapsulating pre-modern mindsets, Rudwick deftly explains how ideas of natural history were embedded in cultural history.... Reading Rudwick's prose is a pleasure." Nature. "A wonderfully erudite and absorbing account of the spasmodic progress of chronological earth science." Times Literary Supplement.
"Earth's Deep History, a grand sweep from the 17th to the 21st century, is a thrilling story of discovery and debate, insight and interpretation." London Review of Books. "Here, Rudwick tells the remarkable story of how the history of our planet evolved in the light of new ideas about humans' connection to nature, advances in scientific methodology, and the changing influence of the Christian faith on man's beliefs about Earth's past....
He succeeds in weaving together a compelling account of how Earth's timescale expanded to magnitudes far beyond those imagined by early scholars, and of the individuals responsible for advancing scientific thinking through their ideas and actions." Times Higher Education.