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The Norton history of the environmental sciences
Fontana history of the environmental sciences
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- Creator
- Peter J. Bowler
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First American edition
- New York : W.W. Norton, 1993
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 634 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780393035353, 0393035352, 9780393310429, 0393310426
- OCLC
- ocm27974548
- Originally published in England under the title: The Fontana history of the environmental sciences.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [554]-606) and index.
- The problem of perception -- The ancient and medieval worlds -- Renaissance and revolution -- Theories of the earth -- Nature and the enlightenment -- The Heroic Age -- The philosophical naturalists -- The age of evolution -- The earth sciences -- Darwinism triumphant -- Ecology and environmentalism