Contesting earth's history in transatlantic literary culture, 1860-1935 : believers and visionaries on the borderlines of geology and palaeontology /

By the mid-nineteenth century, geologists and palaeontologists had reconstructed an authoritative narrative of Earth's deep history, from the planet's molten origins to the rise of humanity. Many figures in transatlantic science across subsequent decades, however, had problems with this na...

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