Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (2007)
Wyse Jackson, Patrick (Editor)
Geological Society
Publication date: 2007
Language: English
Physical Details: vi + 415 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Description Contents:
Review Cooper, Barry J. (2008) Review of "Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 517).
Review Spanagel, David (2009) Review of "Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 140).
Chapter Silva, C. P. da; Pataca, E. M. (2007) Investigating the Colonies: Native Geological Travellers in the Portuguese Empire in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 297).
Chapter Herbert, S. (2007) Doing and Knowing: Charles Darwin and Other Travelers. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 311).
Chapter Mayer, W. (2007) The Quest for Limestone in Colonial New South Wales, 1788--1825. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 325).
Chapter Oldroyd, D. (2007) In the Footsteps of Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792--1855): Soldier, Surveyor, Explorer, Geologist, and Probably the First Person to Compile Geological Maps in Australia. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 343).
Chapter Johnston, M. (2007) Nineteenth-Century Observations of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt, Nelson, New Zealand and Trans-Tasman Correlations. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 375).
Chapter Yajima, M. (2007) Franz Hilgendorf (1839--1904): Introducer of Evolutionary Theory to Japan around 1873. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 389).
Chapter Good, G. A. (2007) Geophysical Travellers: The Magneticians of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 395).
Chapter Taylor, K. L. (2007) Geological Travellers in Auvergne, 1751--1800. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 73).
Chapter Dean, D. R. (2007) J. D. Forbes and Naples. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 97).
Chapter Kolbl-Ebert, M. (2007) The Geological Travels of Charles Lyell, Charlotte Murchison and Roderick Impey Murchison in France and Northern Italy (1828). In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 109).
Chapter Carneiro, A. (2007) Sharing Common Ground: Nery Delgado (1835--1908) in Spain in 1878. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 119).
Chapter Jackson, P. N. Wyse (2007) Grenville Arthur James Cole (1859--1924): The Cycling Geologist. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 135).
Chapter Whittaker, A. (2007) The Travels and Travails of Sir Charles Lewis Giesecke. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 149).
Chapter Naumann, F. (2007) Alexander von Humboldt in Russia: The 1829 Expedition. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 161).
Chapter Milanovsky, E. E. (2007) Hermann Abich (1806--1886): “The Father of Caucasian Geology” and His Travels in the Caucasus and Armenian Highlands. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 177).
Chapter Taquet, P. (2007) On Camelback: René Chudeau (1864--1921), Conrad Kilian (1898--1950), Albert Félix de Lapparent (1905--1975), and Théodore Monod (1902--2000), Four French Geological Travellers Cross the Sahara. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 183).
Chapter Marvin, U. B. (2007) Théodore Andre Monod and the Lost Fer de Dieu Meteorite of Chinguetti, Mauritania. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 191).
Chapter Wilson, L. G. (2007) The Geological Travels of Sir Charles Lyell in Madeira and the Canary Islands, 1853--1854. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 207).
Chapter Pinto, M. S.; Bouheiry, A. (2007) The German Geologist Georg Hartung (1821--1891) and the Geology of the Azores and Madeira Islands. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 229).
Chapter Pearson, P. N.; Nicholas, C. J. (2007) “Marks of Extreme Violence”: Charles Darwin's Geological Observations on St. Jago (Sao Tiago), Cape Verde Islands. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 239).
Chapter Silliman, R. H. (2007) Naturalists from Neuchâtel: America and the Dispersal of Agassiz's Scientific Factory. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 255).
Chapter Orme, A. R. (2007) Clarence Edward Dutton (1841--1912): Soldier, Polymath, and Aesthete. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 271).
Chapter Spalding, D. A. E. (2007) Two Tyrrells Cross the Barren Lands of Canada, 1893. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 287).
Chapter Jackson, P. N. Wyse (2007) Global Peregrinations: Four Centuries of Geological Travel. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 1).
Chapter Vaccari, E. (2007) The Organized Traveller: Scientific Instructions for Geological Travels in Italy and Europe during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 7).
Chapter Drake, E. T. (2007) The Geological Observations of Robert Hooke (1635--1703) on the Isle of Wight. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 19).
Chapter Nicholas, C. J.; Pearson, P. N. (2007) Robert Jameson on the Isle of Arran, 1797--1799: In Search of Hutton's “Theory of the Earth”. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 31).
Chapter Klemun, M. (2007) Writing, “Inscription” and Fact: Eighteenth Century Mineralogical Books Based on Travels in the Habsburg Regions, the Carpathian Mountains. In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 49).
Chapter Schweizer, C. (2007) Geological Travellers in View of Their Philosophical and Economical Intentions: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749--1832) and Caspar Maria Count Sternberg (1761--1838). In: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (p. 63).
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