摘要
《地球探赜索隐录——地质学思想史》是澳大利亚科学史家奥尔德罗伊德教授在多年研究的基础上,撰写的一部地质学通史著作。作者通过多方位、多视角的讨论,展示了人类认识地球的历史进程。在分析人类认识地球历史的同时,还阐述了作者的观点:在某种意义上,地球可以看作是有生命的实体;在宇宙中运行的地球,具有生命的根本特征。
Written by the Australian historian of science Prof. David R. Oldroyd, Thinking about the Earth-A History of Ideas in Geology is a general history of geology. The book reveals the history of man＇s understanding about the earth through different trends and views. Besides analyzing the progress on the earth ideas, it expatiates the author＇s viewpoint of regarding the earth as a globe of life. The earth, circulating in the universe, has the fundamental nature of life.
出处
《自然科学史研究》
CSCD
北大核心
2007年第2期255-264,共10页
Studies in The History of Natural Sciences
关键词
《地球探赜索隐录》
地质学
地质学史译著
盖亚
Thinking about the Earth--A History of Ideas in Geology, geology, the history of geology, Gaia
