The story of two nineteenth-century scientists who revealed one of the most significant and exciting events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs.In ‘The Dinosaur Hunters’ Deborah Cadbury brilliantly recreates the remarkable story of the bitter rivalry between two men: Gideon Mantell uncovered giant bones in a Sussex quarry, became obsessed with the lost world of the reptiles and was driven to despair. Richard Owen, a brilliant anatomist, gave the extinct creatures their name and secured for himself unrivalled international acclaim.Note that it has not been possible to include the same picture content that appeared in the original print version.
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Deborah Cadbury. The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World
THE. DINOSAUR. HUNTERS
Deborah Cadbury
Dedication
Contents
1 An Ocean Turned to Stone
2 The World in a Pebble
3 Toast of Mice and Crocodiles for Tea
4 The Subterranean Forest
5 The Giant Saurians
6 The Young Contender
7 Satan’s Creatures
8 The Geological Age of Reptiles
9 Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw
10 Nil Desperandum
11 Dinosauria
12 The Arch-hater
13 Dinomania
14 Nature without God?
Epilogue
Notes and Sources
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
Select Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Praise
Other Works
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Rather than accepting that the earth’s crust had formed in a mere six thousand years, Abraham Werner speculated that the older Primary and Transition rocks had formed more than a million years ago, by precipitation from a universal ocean that once enveloped the whole world. His theory implied that the order of rocks he had identified in Saxony would be found elsewhere. If his observations were right, the consequences of his findings were huge, as they were proof that locked within the earth’s crust was evidence of distinct periods in its formation. By identifying an order in the layers of rock, Werner was offering the world a glimpse of prehistory.
Even more perplexing amid the lecture-rooms of deans and bishops at Oxford was a new theory put forward by a Scotsman, James Hutton. He did not accept Werner’s view that the older rocks had precipitated from a universal ocean, but envisaged that they were formed gradually by erosion and deposition. This led him to speculate that the history of the earth was so vast it was almost immeasurable.
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