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ISBN 10: 0816054665

ISBN 13: 978-0816054664 

Author: Katherine E. Cullen 

Profiles the lives and accomplishments of ten people who made some of the most progressive steps in the fields of meteorology and climatology, including Cleveland Abbe, Louis Agassiz, Vilhelm Bjerknes, Paul J. Crutzen, and Evangelista Torricelli.

Table of contents:

1. Preface

2. Acknowledgments

3. Introduction

4. Georgius Agricola (1494–1555): The Forefather of Geology and the Father of Mineralogy

5. Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686): The Law of Superposition of Rock Layers and the Principles of Original Horizontality and Lateral Extension

6. James Hutton (1726–1797): Uniformitarianism as the Central Principle of Historical Geology

7. Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859): Unification of the Natural Sciences

8. Georges Cuvier (1769–1832): The Reality of Extinction of Past Life-forms

9. William Smith (1769–1839): Creation of the World's First Geological Map

10. Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875): The Gradual Nature of Earth's Processes

11. Alfred Wegener (1880–1930): The Theory of Continental Drift

12. Arthur Holmes (1890–1965): Estimation of the Earth's Age

13. Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002): Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium

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