Citations for Readings

  • Adams, F. D., 1938, The Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences. Dover reprint, 506 p.
  • Agassiz, L. J., 1840, Evidence of a Glacial Epoch. Reprinted in Mather, K. E. and Mason, S. L., eds., 1939, Source Book in Geology, p. 329-335.
  • Albritton, C.C., Jr., 1981, The Abyss of Time. Freeman and Cooper, 251 p.
  • Allègre, C., 1988, The Behavior of the Earth – Continental and Seafloor Mobility. Translated by Deborah Kurmes van Dam, Harvard University Press, 272 p.
  • Bowler, P. J., 2003, Evolution: The History of an Idea (Third edition). University of California Press, 464 p.
  • Buckland, W., 1821, Notice of a Paper laid before the Geological Society on the Structure of the Alps and adjoining Parts of the Continent, and their Relation to the Secondary and Transition Rocks of England.  Annals of Philosophy (new series), v. 1, p. 450-468.
  • Cuvier, G., 1807, A Report on André’s Theory of the Earth. In: Rudwick, M. J. S., 1997, Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophies: New Translations of the Primary Texts, p. 98-111.
  • Cuvier, G., 1812, Preliminary Discourse. In: Rudwick, M. J. S., 1997, Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophies: New Translations of the Primary Texts, p. 173-252. (This reading is also known as “The Revolutions of the Globe”.)
  • Cuvier, G., and Broungniart, A., 1808, Essay on the Mineral Geography of the Environs of Paris. In: Rudwick, M. J. S., 1997, Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophies: New Translations of the Primary Texts, p. 127-156.
  • Davies, G. L., 1969, The Earth in Decay. Elsevier, 390 p.
  • Dean D. R., 1992, James Hutton and the History of Geology. Cornell University Press, 303 p.
  • Desmarest, N.,1774, The Volcanic Origin of Basalt. Reprinted in Mather, K. E. and Mason, S. L., eds., 1939, Source Book in Geology, p. 90.
  • Desmarest, N., 1806, Age Determinations in a Volcanic Region. Reprinted in Mather, K. E. and Mason, S. L., eds., 1939, Source Book in Geology, p. 91.
  • Dolomieu, G. S. T. de, 1785, Rhyolitic lavas. Reprinted in Mather, K. E. and Mason, S. L., eds., 1939, Source Book in Geology, p. 151-152.
  • Dolomieu, G. S. T. de, 1789, The Relations between the Auvergne Volcanics and the Granite on Which They Rest. Reprinted in Mather, K. E. and Mason, S. L., eds., 1939, Source Book in Geology, p. 152-154.
  • Dott, R. H., Jr., 1997, James Dwight Dana’s Old Tectonics – Global contraction under divine direction. American Journal of Science, v. 297, p. 283-311.
  • Élie de Beaumont, L., 1831, Researches on some of the Revolutions which have taken place on the surface of the globe.  The Philosophical Magazine and Annals of Philosophy, new series, v. 10, p. 241-264.
  • Fisher, O., 1881, Physics of the Earth’s Crust. MacMillan.
  • Geikie, A., 1868-69, On Modern Denudation. Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow, v. 3, p. 153-190.
  • Geikie, A., 1882, The Scenery of Scotland viewed in connection with its Physical Geology, second edition. MacMillan.
  • Geikie, A., 1905, The Founders of Geology, 2nd Ed. Dover (reprint), 506 p.
  • Greene, M. T., 1982, Geology in the Nineteenth Century, Cornell University Press, 324 p.
  • Hallam, A., 1989, Great Geological Controversies, second edition. Oxford University Press, 244 p.
  • Harris, M. T., 2018, The Influence of Plato and Aristotle on late Medieval and early Renaissance Natural History. Unpublished.
  • Hutton, J., 1785, Abstract of a Dissertation read at the Royal Society of Edinburgh,Upon the seventh of March, and fourth of April, 1785, concerning the system of the Earth, Its Duration, and Stability. Royal Society of Edinburgh, 30 p.
  • Jukes, J. B., 1862, On the Mode of Formation of some of the River-valleys in the South of Ireland. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 18, p. 378-403.
  • Kay, M., 1951, North American Geosynclines, Geological Society of America Memoir 48, 143 p. (abstract only)
  • Laudan, R., 1987, From Mineralogy to Geology. University of Chicago Press, 278 p.
  • Lyell, C., 1990, Principles of Geology: with an introduction by M. J. S. Rudwick. University of Chicago Press, 3 volumes.
  • Oldroyd, D. R., 1996, Thinking about the Earth.  Harvard University Press, 410 p.
  • Playfair, J., 1822, James Hutton Observes the Great Unconformity at Siccar Point. Reprinted in Cloud, P., ed., Adventures in Earth History, 1970, p. 22-23.
  • Ramsay, A. C., 1872, The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain, third edition. Edward Stanford.
  • Rudwick, M. J. S., 1971, Uniformity and progression: reflections on the structure of geological theory in the age of Lyell.  In Roller, D. H. D., ed., Perspectives in the History of Science and Technology, p. 207-237.
  • Rudwick, M. J. S.,1976, The Meaning of Fossils – Episodes in the History of Paleontology. Elsevier, 281 p.
  • Rudwick, M. J. S., 1985, The Great Devonian Controversy. University of Chicago Press, 494 p.
  • Rudwick, M. J. S., 1990, Introduction.  In Lyell, C., Principles of Geology: with an introduction by M. J. S. Rudwick, p. vii-lviii.
  • Rudwick, M. J. S., 1996, Cuvier and Brongniart, William Smith, and the Reconstruction of Geohistory. Earth Science History, v. 15, p. 25-36.
  • Rudwick, M. J. S., 1997, Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophies: New Translations of the Primary Texts.  University of Chicago Press, 301 p.
  • Rudwick, M. J. S., 2005, Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution. University of Chicago Press, 732 p.
  • Rudwick, M. J. S., 2008, Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform. University of Chicago Press, 614 p.
  • Scarth, A., and Tanguy, J.-C., 2001, Volcanoes in Europe. Oxford University Press, 243 p.
  • Scope, G. P., 1825, Considerations on Volcanoes. Reprinted in Mather, K. E. and Mason, S. L., eds., 1939, Source Book in Geology, p. 274-278.
  • Scrope,G. P., 1858, The Origin of Valleys. Reprinted in Mather, K. E. and Mason, S. L., eds., 1939, Source Book in Geology, p. 278-279.
  • Secord, J.A., 1986, Controversy in Victorian Geology:  The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute. Princeton University Press.
  • Steno, N., 1916, The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno’s Dissertation concerning a Solid Body Enclosed by Process of Nature within a Solid. Translated by J. G. Winter, reprinted in Mather, K. E. and Mason, S. L., eds., 1939, Source Book in Geology, p. 33-44.
  • Stewart, J. A., 1990, Drifting Continents & Colliding Paradigms: Perspectives on the Geoscience Revolution. Indiana University Press , 285 p.
  • Teall, J. J. H., 1901, The evolution of petrological ideas. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 57, p. lxiii-lxxxvi.
  • Von Buch, L., 1802, The Igneous Origin of Basalt. Reprinted in Mather, K. E. and Mason, S. L., eds., 1939, Source Book in Geology, p. 208.
  • Wood, R. M., 1985, The Dark Side of the Earth – The Battle for the Earth Sciences:  1800-1980. Allen and Unwin, 246 p.

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