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The Culture of English Geology, 1815-1851 - A Science Revealed Through Its Collecting (Hardcover)
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The Culture of English Geology, 1815-1851 - A Science Revealed Through Its Collecting (Hardcover)
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An examination of the development of geology collections in the
first half of the 19th century. It investigates the social motives
of science and demonstrates that these, as much as any wish to
pursue natural knowledge, determined what geology became, the
process by which it evolved and those who participated. From
individual collector, through evolving curatorial profession and
provincial philosopher, to government-funded science, this is a
story of financial imperatives, cultural supremacy, of a striving
for immortality and for social progression. It begins by
constructing a social setting for the phase of collecting and
museum building which swept through the western world in the 1820s,
and demonstrates how, within a relatively short time, this museum
movement declined, to be replaced by local government funded
museums and a new wave of field clubs.
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