Worlds Before Adam¶
Rudwick, M. J. S. (2008). Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform. University of Chicago Press.
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- Uniformitarianism
- An inferential bridging assumption that connects unobservable past states to observable present processes, as Rudwick (2008) traces in his historical reconstruction of how this bridge was built into modern geohistory.
This sourceDetailed history of how 19th-century geologists built the present-to-past inferential bridge that became uniformitarianism, including the role of Lyell's Principles and Whewell's coining of the term.
- An inferential bridging assumption that connects unobservable past states to observable present processes, as Rudwick (2008) traces in his historical reconstruction of how this bridge was built into modern geohistory.
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