2005-8 Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

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First Edition, Illustrated, Pleasing Copy, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition, first impressions of this work, complete in two volumes in 'The Reconstruction of Geohistory' series by Martin J. S. Rudwick.

Bursting the Limits of Time is an effort to retrace the history of natural wold in the age of revolution, examining ideas and practices of earth scientists in the Western world, looking at the protagonists in the discovery of earth's history, refuting the concept of a rift between the science and religion in dating earth, and detailing how the study of the history of the earth brought to the defining of geology. 

Worlds Before Adam offers the first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman geohistory, from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain's Victorian age, looking at the discoveries made by geologists during that period: the first dinosaur fossil, the glacial theory of the last Ice Age, the meaning of igneous rocks, and more.

Both volumes are decorated with black and white illustrations in text, and are complete with its unclipped dust wrapper.