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Charles Darwin's geologist's field guide
Author(s) -
WILDING RICHARD
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
geology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1365-2451
pISSN - 0266-6979
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2451.1989.tb00656.x
Subject(s) - geologist , darwin (adl) , geology , charles darwin , field (mathematics) , paleontology , art history , archaeology , environmental ethics , history , philosophy , engineering , epistemology , darwinism , mathematics , systems engineering , pure mathematics
From observations carried out on his ‘Beagle’ voyage, Charles Darwin made a number of important contributions to geological science. He showed himself to be a meticulous observer and an imaginative field worker. His methods are probably best summarized in a contribution on field geology that he made to the Admiralty Manual of Scientific Enquiry, published in 1849. That paper contains some important clues for the historian of early nineteenth‐century geology.