Geoscience Reference
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Bibliography
General works consulted
The following are useful introductions to the history of geology, while some are
more focused on the history of research on the age of the Earth.
Adams, Frank Dawson The Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences
(New York: Dover Publications, 1954)
Albritton, Claude C. Jr, The Abyss of Time: Changing Conceptions of the Earth's
Antiquity after the Sixteenth Century (Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1986)
Brush, Stephen G. Transmuted Past: The Age of the Earth and the Evolution of the
Elements fromLyell to Patterson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Dalrymple, G. Brent The Age of the Earth (Stanford University Press, 1991)
Ellenberger, Fran¸ ois History of Geology 1: FromAncient Times to the First Half of
the XVII Century (Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1996)
Ellenberger, Fran¸ ois History of Geology 2: The Great Awakening and its First
Fruits - 1660-1810 (Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1999)
Geikie, Archibald The Founders of Geology (New York: Dover Publications, 1962)
Gillispie, Charles C. Genesis and Geology (Cambridge MA: Harvard University
Press, 1996)
Good, Gregory A. (ed.) Sciences of the Earth: an Encyclopedia of Events, People, and
Phenomena (2 vols) (New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1998)
Haber, Francis C. The Age of the World: Moses to Darwin (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins Press, 1959)
Harper, C. T. (ed.) Geochronology: Radiometric Dating of Rocks and Minerals
(Stroudsburg PA: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., 1973)
Holland, Charles Hepworth The Idea of Time (Chichester: J. Wiley & Sons, 1999)
Holmes, Arthur The Age of the Earth (London & New York: Harper & Brothers,
1913)
Hurley, Patrick How Old is the Earth? (London: Heinemann, 1960)
Lewis, Cherry L. E. & Knell, Simon J. (eds.), The Age of the Earth: from 4004
BC
to
AD
2002 (London: Geological Society Special Publication 190, 2001)
Mather, Kirtley F. (ed.), Source Book in Geology 1900-1950 (Cambridge MA:
Harvard University Press, 1967)
