Terra Incognita : a history of ignorance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries (Record no. 70666)
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| fixed length control field | 01968 a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781509546268 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 001.0903 |
| Item number | COR |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Corbin, Alain |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Terra Incognita : a history of ignorance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Polity Press |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Cambridge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | vii,227p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents<br/>Acknowledgements Vll<br/>A Comprehensive History Implies the Study of Ignorance I<br/>Part I Gaps in Enlightenment Knowledge of the Earth<br/>I. The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 17 5 5 II<br/>2. The Age of the Earth? 22<br/>3. Imagining the Earth's Internal Structure 29<br/>4. The Mystery of the Poles 37<br/>5. The Unfathomable Mysteries of the Deep 44<br/>6. Discovering Mountains 50<br/>7. Mysterious Glaciers 58<br/>8. A Fascination with Volcanoes 62<br/>9. The Birth of Meteorology 73<br/>IO. Conquering the Skies 84<br/>II. The State of Scientific Ignorance at the End<br/>of the Age of Enlightenment 87<br/>Part II A Gradual Decline in Ignorance (1800-18 50)<br/>12. Understanding Glaciers 93<br/>13. The Birth of Geology 97<br/>14. Volcanoes and the Mystery of 'Dry Fogs' 103<br/>15. The Ocean Depths and the Fear of the<br/>Unknown 109<br/>16. Reading Clouds and the Beaufort Scale II3<br/>17. The Poles Remain a Mystery 121<br/>18. The State of Scientific Ignorance in the Early 1860s 126<br/>Part III Shrinking the Boundaries of Ignorance (1860-1900)<br/>19. Exploring the Ocean Depths 131 <br/>20. The Development of Dynamic Meteorology 136<br/>2I. Manned Flight and the Discovery of the Troposphere and Stratosphere 142<br/>22. Scientific Volcanology and the Birth of Seismology 145<br/>23. Measuring the Grip of Ice 150<br/>24. Solving the Mysteries of Rivers: Fluvialism, Hydrology and Speleology 153<br/>25. A New Approach to Reading the Globe 161<br/>26. Was There Open Sea at the Poles? 166<br/>27. The Earth Sciences Slowly Filter into General Knowledge 175<br/>28. Measuring Ignorance at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century 188<br/>Notes 193<br/>Index 210<br/> |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | UK |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | FA |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Brick walls |
| -- | Earth sciences |
| -- | Knowledge, Theory of |
| -- | Science--Social aspects |
| -- | Europe |
| -- | Discoveries in science |
| -- | Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) |
| -- | Errors, Scientific |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Withdrawn status | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last borrowed | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Faculty of Architecture | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 04/04/2023 | amazon.in | 1961.00 | 2 | 001.0903 COR | 024788 | 25/09/2023 | 08/09/2023 | 1961.00 | 04/04/2023 | Book |