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Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Gowan Dawson
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 170 x 35. Weight in Grams: 790.
Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty-- Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal! Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded as scientific virtuosos, sometimes even veritable wizards, capable of resurrecting the denizens of an ancient past from a mere glance at a fragmentary bone. Such extraordinary feats of predictive reasoning relied on the law of correlation, which proposed that each element of an animal corresponds mutually with each of the others, so that a carnivorous tooth ... Read more
Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty-- Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal! Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded as scientific virtuosos, sometimes even veritable wizards, capable of resurrecting the denizens of an ancient past from a mere glance at a fragmentary bone. Such extraordinary feats of predictive reasoning relied on the law of correlation, which proposed that each element of an animal corresponds mutually with each of the others, so that a carnivorous tooth ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226332734
SKU
V9780226332734
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About Gowan Dawson
Gowan Dawson is professor of Victorian literature and culture at the University of Leicester. He is coeditor of Victorian Scientific Naturalism, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and is the author of Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability.
Reviews for Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
[A] pleasure to read, thanks to Dawson's lively style and his tight grip over his argument as it leads us between Paris, London, New Zealand, New England, the Crimea and elsewhere. This book deserves to be read well beyond the domain of 'earth science history'. In its distinctive blend of methodologies, its integration of remarkably diverse source materials, its bridging ... Read more