- Hardcover: 294 pages
- Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (Dec 15 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0226731049
- ISBN-13: 978-0226731049
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 2.2 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 726 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,359,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The idea of "deep time" developed with the advance of geological knowledge in the Victorian age. Rudwick has studied paleontological illustrations from that period to trace changes in how scientists visualized the prehistoric world and attempted to illustrate the span of time. He finds that the dominant themes were the conception of fossils as remnants of the biblical flood, pressure from the scientific community to refrain from flights of fancy, and the lack of complete data as a basis for reconstructions. At the same time, popular illustrations showed fantastic prehistoric monsters that captured the public imagination. Rudwick's scholarly text is heavily illustrated with pictures and quotations from source material. Although some of the pictures are lively, the topic is esoteric and requires the reader to be familiar with the history of geological science. For academic libraries.
- Amy Brunvand, Fort Lewis Coll. Lib., Durango, Col.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Amy Brunvand, Fort Lewis Coll. Lib., Durango, Col.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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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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Any scene from deep time embodies a fundamental problem: it must make visible what is really invisible. Read the first page
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This review is from: Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World (Paperback)
Dense with prose and with disappointingly few illustrations [especially for a book about illustrations!], this book will still interest anyone interested in the history of geology. Written by an acknowledged master of the subject.
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