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ISBN 10: 0813712033

ISBN 13: 978-0813712031 

Author: Gary D. Rosenberg

This scholarly volume explores the dramatic transformation of geological thought in Europe between the Renaissance (roughly the 15th century) and the Enlightenment (18th century). It examines how geology evolved from a largely descriptive, philosophical approach to a rigorous empirical science.

The book includes chapters by historians of science who analyze key developments, debates, and discoveries that shaped the field. It covers topics such as:

• The influence of Renaissance humanism and classical texts on natural philosophy

• The role of mining and practical knowledge in early geological insights

• Changing ideas about fossils, strata, and Earth's age

• The shift from biblical explanations to naturalistic interpretations of Earth history

• The intellectual context of the Enlightenment that encouraged systematic classification and global exploration

By tracing the roots of modern geology to this pivotal era, the volume demonstrates how broader cultural and scientific changes—like empiricism, secularization, and technological advances—fueled a revolution in understanding Earth's structure and history.

Published by the Geological Society of America as part of its Special Paper series, this book is intended for historians of science, geologists interested in the history of their discipline, and anyone curious about how modern Earth science emerged from centuries of evolving thought.

Table of contents:

1. Preface

2. Introduction: The revolution in geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

3. The measure of man and landscape in the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution

4. Geochemical concepts in Isaac Newton’s early alchemy

5. From alchemy to science: The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment in Spanish American mining and metallurgy

6. Signs and symbols in Kircher’s Mundus Subterraneus

7. Niels Stensen—Steno, in the world of collections and museums

8. The Path to Steno’s synthesis on the animal origin of glossopetrae

9. Hooke–Steno relations reconsidered: Reassessing the roles of Ole Borch and Robert Boyle

10. Prompters of Steno’s geological principles: Generation of stones in living beings, glossopetrae and molding

11. The age of Earth in Niels Stensen’s geology

12. Nicolaus Steno and the problem of deep time

13. Nicholas Steno and René Descartes: A Cartesian perspective on Steno’s scientific development

14. On the origin of natural history: Steno’s modern, but forgotten philosophy of science

15. Nicholas Steno’s way from experience to faith: Geological evolution and the original sin of mankind

16. The Scientific Revolution and Nicholas Steno’s twofold conversion

17. Benjamin Franklin and geology

18. Thomas Jefferson, extinction, and the evolving view of Earth history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

19. “Very vain is Science’ proudest boast”: The resistance to geological theory in early nineteenth-century England

20. Charles S. Peirce and the “Light of Nature”

21. Theory choice in the historical sciences: Geology as a philosophical case study

22. Natural theology, design and law

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