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020			_a9781509546268
082			_a001.0903 _bCOR
100			_aCorbin, Alain
245			_aTerra Incognita : a history of ignorance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries
260			_bPolity Press _aCambridge _c2021
300			_avii,227p.
505			_aContents Acknowledgements Vll A Comprehensive History Implies the Study of Ignorance I Part I Gaps in Enlightenment Knowledge of the Earth I. The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 17 5 5 II 2. The Age of the Earth? 22 3. Imagining the Earth's Internal Structure 29 4. The Mystery of the Poles 37 5. The Unfathomable Mysteries of the Deep 44 6. Discovering Mountains 50 7. Mysterious Glaciers 58 8. A Fascination with Volcanoes 62 9. The Birth of Meteorology 73 IO. Conquering the Skies 84 II. The State of Scientific Ignorance at the End of the Age of Enlightenment 87 Part II A Gradual Decline in Ignorance (1800-18 50) 12. Understanding Glaciers 93 13. The Birth of Geology 97 14. Volcanoes and the Mystery of 'Dry Fogs' 103 15. The Ocean Depths and the Fear of the Unknown 109 16. Reading Clouds and the Beaufort Scale II3 17. The Poles Remain a Mystery 121 18. The State of Scientific Ignorance in the Early 1860s 126 Part III Shrinking the Boundaries of Ignorance (1860-1900) 19. Exploring the Ocean Depths 131 20. The Development of Dynamic Meteorology 136 2I. Manned Flight and the Discovery of the Troposphere and Stratosphere 142 22. Scientific Volcanology and the Birth of Seismology 145 23. Measuring the Grip of Ice 150 24. Solving the Mysteries of Rivers: Fluvialism, Hydrology and Speleology 153 25. A New Approach to Reading the Globe 161 26. Was There Open Sea at the Poles? 166 27. The Earth Sciences Slowly Filter into General Knowledge 175 28. Measuring Ignorance at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century 188 Notes 193 Index 210
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650			_aBrick walls _aEarth sciences _aKnowledge, Theory of _aScience--Social aspects _aEurope _aDiscoveries in science _aIgnorance (Theory of knowledge) _aErrors, Scientific