Il compito sarebbe difficile in ogni caso. ‘I geologi sono tuttora impegnati polemicamente a difendere o ripudiare l’uniformitarismo. Eredità dell’Illuminismo: studi sulla cultura europea fra Settecento e Ottocento.

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Published as ‘Die Industrielle Revolution und die Entstehung der Wissenschaft Geologie’. Heinemann Educational, London 1973: 320343. Changing perspectives in the history of science: essays in honour of Joseph Needham. ‘The Industrial Revolution and the rise of the science of geology’. FOREWORDS, INTRODUCTIONS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS BY DATE OF PUBLICATION Roy Porter.

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