Show me the bone : reconstructing prehistoric monsters in nineteenth-century Britain and America / Gowan Dawson.

  • Dawson, Gowan
Date:
2016
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Physical description

476 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Cuvier's law of correlation -- Part I. Arrival, 1795-1839 : translations and appropriations. Correlation crosses the Channel ; Fragments of design -- Part II. Triumph, 1839-54 : bones, serials, and models. Discovering the dinornis ; Paleontology in parts ; Correlation at the Crystal Palace -- Part III. Overthrow, 1854-62 : scientific naturalists, popularizers, and cannibals. Correlation under siege ; The problems of popularization ; Unfortunate allies -- Part IV. Afterlife, 1862-1917 : missing links and hidden clues. Evolutionary modifications ; Prophecies of the past -- Epilogue: Ghosts of correlation.

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    History of Medicine
    AKE.41.AA8
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ISBN

  • 9780226332734
  • 022633273X