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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
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  
New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008
Materiale a stampa
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  
New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
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-9910815103703321
Thomson Keith Stewart  
New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui