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Table of Contents - Memoir 203

The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

edited by Gary D. Rosenberg


Preface vii
Introduction: The revolution in geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Gary D. Rosenberg
1
1. The measure of man and landscape in the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution
Gary D. Rosenberg
13
2. Geochemical concepts in Isaac Newton’s early alchemy
William R. Newman
41
3. From alchemy to science: The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment in Spanish American mining and metallurgy
Joaquín Pérez Melero
51
4. Signs and symbols in Kircher’s Mundus Subterraneus
William C. Parcell
63
5. Niels Stensen—Steno, in the world of collections and museums
Elsebeth Thomsen
75
6. The Path to Steno’s synthesis on the animal origin of glossopetrae
Kuang-Tai Hsu
93
7. Hooke–Steno relations reconsidered: Reassessing the roles of Ole Borch and Robert Boyle
Toshihiro Yamada
107
8. Prompters of Steno’s geological principles: Generation of stones in living beings, glossopetrae and molding
Troels Kardel
127
9. The age of Earth in Niels Stensen’s geology
August Ziggelaar
135
10. Nicolaus Steno and the problem of deep time
Alan H. Cutler
143
11. Nicholas Steno and René Descartes: A Cartesian perspective on Steno’s scientific development
Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen
149
12. On the origin of natural history: Steno’s modern, but forgotten philosophy of science
Jens Morten Hansen
159
13. Nicholas Steno’s way from experience to faith: Geological evolution and the original sin of mankind
Frank Sobiech
179
14. The Scientific Revolution and Nicholas Steno’s twofold conversion
Gian Battista Vai
187
15. Benjamin Franklin and geology
Dennis R. Dean
209
16. Thomas Jefferson, extinction, and the evolving view of Earth history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Stephen M. Rowland
225
17. “Very vain is Science’ proudest boast”: The resistance to geological theory in early nineteenth-century England
Noah Heringman
247
18. Charles S. Peirce and the “Light of Nature”
Victor R. Baker
259
19. Theory choice in the historical sciences: Geology as a philosophical case study
William L. Vanderburgh
267
20. Natural theology, design and law
Michael T. Ghiselin
277