The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology (Univ of Chicago PR)

Author/Contributor(s):	Rudwick, Martin J S
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	06/15/1985
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field.--Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology

Rudwick has not merely written the first book-length history of palaeontology in the English language; he has written a very intelligent one. . . . His accounts of sources are rounded and organic: he treats the structure of arguments as Cuvier handled fossil bones.--Roy S. Porter, History of Science