Scenes from Deep Time

Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Earth Sciences, Palaeontology, Other Sciences, History
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Author: Martin J. S. Rudwick ISBN: 9780226149035
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication: November 8, 1995
Imprint: University of Chicago Press Language: English
Author: Martin J. S. Rudwick
ISBN: 9780226149035
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication: November 8, 1995
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Language: English

How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.

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How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.

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