The Floating Egg: Episodes in the Making of Geology

ISBN-13: 9780712666862 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 384 str.

Roger Osborne

Opis

Explores the uncertain line where myth is dissolved into science, and belief gives way to knowledge. This title offers different episodes that show how a stone falling from the sky near this same coast changed the minds of all the natural philosophers of Europe; and how a new science was born on the top of the tower of York Minster.