The legacy of the Mastodon [[electronic resource] ] : the golden age of fossils in America / / Keith Thomson
| The legacy of the Mastodon [[electronic resource] ] : the golden age of fossils in America / / Keith Thomson |
| Autore | Thomson Keith Stewart |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
| Disciplina | 560.973/09033 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mastodons - North America
Mammoths - North America Mammals, Fossil - North America Paleontology - North America Paleontology - United States - History Paleontology - United States - History - 18th century Paleontology - United States - History - 19th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-08860-2
9786612088605 0-300-15184-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Pt. one: The Jeffersonians -- Fossil hunters on the frontier -- Big Bone Lick -- Franklin, Jefferson, and the incognitum -- Jefferson's "great-claw" and a world about to change -- The first American dinosaurs: an eighteenth-century mystery story -- Fossils and show business: Mr. Peale's Mastodon -- Pt. two: Fossils and geology -- Fossils and extinction: dangerous ideas -- Mary Anning's world -- An American natural science -- An American geology -- Bad lands: no time for ideas -- Dr. Leidy's dinosaur -- Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden -- Pt. three: Giant Saurians and horned mammals -- Kansas and a new regime -- Entry of the gladiators -- Riding the rails -- The first Yale college expedition -- The competition begins -- Buffalo land: who was Professor Paleozoic? -- 1872: the year of conflict -- The case of the great horned mammals -- Going separate ways -- Two into four won't go -- To the Black Hills -- To the Judith River -- Pt. four: Toward the twentieth century -- The rise of dinosaurs -- The good, the bad, and the ugly -- Going public -- 1890: the end of the beginning -- Appendixes -- The geological column -- Leidy on evolution -- Cope on evolution. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455168203321 |
Thomson Keith Stewart
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| New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The legacy of the Mastodon [[electronic resource] ] : the golden age of fossils in America / / Keith Thomson
| The legacy of the Mastodon [[electronic resource] ] : the golden age of fossils in America / / Keith Thomson |
| Autore | Thomson Keith Stewart |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
| Disciplina | 560.973/09033 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mastodons - North America
Mammoths - North America Mammals, Fossil - North America Paleontology - North America Paleontology - United States - History Paleontology - United States - History - 18th century Paleontology - United States - History - 19th century |
| ISBN |
1-282-08860-2
9786612088605 0-300-15184-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Pt. one: The Jeffersonians -- Fossil hunters on the frontier -- Big Bone Lick -- Franklin, Jefferson, and the incognitum -- Jefferson's "great-claw" and a world about to change -- The first American dinosaurs: an eighteenth-century mystery story -- Fossils and show business: Mr. Peale's Mastodon -- Pt. two: Fossils and geology -- Fossils and extinction: dangerous ideas -- Mary Anning's world -- An American natural science -- An American geology -- Bad lands: no time for ideas -- Dr. Leidy's dinosaur -- Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden -- Pt. three: Giant Saurians and horned mammals -- Kansas and a new regime -- Entry of the gladiators -- Riding the rails -- The first Yale college expedition -- The competition begins -- Buffalo land: who was Professor Paleozoic? -- 1872: the year of conflict -- The case of the great horned mammals -- Going separate ways -- Two into four won't go -- To the Black Hills -- To the Judith River -- Pt. four: Toward the twentieth century -- The rise of dinosaurs -- The good, the bad, and the ugly -- Going public -- 1890: the end of the beginning -- Appendixes -- The geological column -- Leidy on evolution -- Cope on evolution. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778088203321 |
Thomson Keith Stewart
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| New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The legacy of the Mastodon : the golden age of fossils in America / / Keith Thomson
| The legacy of the Mastodon : the golden age of fossils in America / / Keith Thomson |
| Autore | Thomson Keith Stewart |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
| Disciplina | 560.973/09033 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mastodons - North America
Mammoths - North America Mammals, Fossil - North America Paleontology - North America Paleontology - United States - History Paleontology - United States - History - 18th century Paleontology - United States - History - 19th century |
| ISBN |
1-282-08860-2
9786612088605 0-300-15184-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Pt. one: The Jeffersonians -- Fossil hunters on the frontier -- Big Bone Lick -- Franklin, Jefferson, and the incognitum -- Jefferson's "great-claw" and a world about to change -- The first American dinosaurs: an eighteenth-century mystery story -- Fossils and show business: Mr. Peale's Mastodon -- Pt. two: Fossils and geology -- Fossils and extinction: dangerous ideas -- Mary Anning's world -- An American natural science -- An American geology -- Bad lands: no time for ideas -- Dr. Leidy's dinosaur -- Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden -- Pt. three: Giant Saurians and horned mammals -- Kansas and a new regime -- Entry of the gladiators -- Riding the rails -- The first Yale college expedition -- The competition begins -- Buffalo land: who was Professor Paleozoic? -- 1872: the year of conflict -- The case of the great horned mammals -- Going separate ways -- Two into four won't go -- To the Black Hills -- To the Judith River -- Pt. four: Toward the twentieth century -- The rise of dinosaurs -- The good, the bad, and the ugly -- Going public -- 1890: the end of the beginning -- Appendixes -- The geological column -- Leidy on evolution -- Cope on evolution. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910965285503321 |
Thomson Keith Stewart
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| New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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