The Environment and Science: Social Impact and InteractionBloomsbury Academic, 2005 M04 25 - 299 páginas A fascinating look at the historical relationship between environmental issues and scientific study, social attitudes, and public policy from the 17th century to the present. |
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... explanation for the origin of the earth itself . His theory included components of physical and mechanical explanations compatible with Newtonian physics . A comet colliding with the sun , Buffon proposed , might throw enormous amounts ...
... explanation for the origin and placement of the oceans and solid ground . They called this expla- nation " Bible Geology . " Genesis contained a record of how God had separated day from night , the heavens from the earth , and the ...
... explanation for change in the natural world , even while Lyell continued to reject them . Darwin's Search for Explanations Perhaps Lyell's greatest contribution was his search for mechanisms that could account for observed processes and ...
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Ecology and the Foundations of Environmental Science | 83 |
The Succession of Communities | 91 |
Protecting Species | 100 |
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