EARTH S DEEP HISTORY / HOW IT WAS DISCOVERED AND WHY IT MATTERS

Archbishop James Ussher, who famously dated the creation of the cosmos to 4004 BC. His narrative then turns to the crucial period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when inquisitive intellectuals, who came to call themselves geologists, began to interpret rocks and fossils, mountains and volcanoes, as natural archives of Earths history. He then shows how this geological evidence was usedand is still being usedto reconstruct a history of the Earth that is as varied and unpredictable as human history itself. Along...[Llegir més]