McKay John J. Discovering the Mammoth: A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science 9781681778037

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Автор: McKay John J.
Название: Discovering the Mammoth: A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science
ISBN: 9781681778037
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Классификация:

Палеонтология

Динозавры и доисторический мир

Горные породы, минералы и окаменелости

ISBN-10: 1681778033
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 264
Вес: 0.67 кг.
Дата издания: 14.08.2018
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 8 pages of color illustrations
Размер: 145 x 222 x 20
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Подзаголовок: A tale of giants, unicorns, ivory, and the birth of a new science
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Поставляется из: Англии
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When the ancient Greeks saw deposits of giant fossils, they knew they had discovered the battle fields where the gods had vanquished the Titans. When the Chinese discovered buried ivory, they knew they had found dragons teeth. But as the Age of Reason dawned, monsters and giants gave way to the scientific method. Yet the mystery of these mighty bones remained. How did Enlightenment thinkers overcome centuries of myth and misunderstanding to reconstruct an unknown animal?

The journey to unravel that puzzle begins in the 1690s with the arrival of new type of ivory on the European market bearing the exotic name mammoth. It ends during the Napoleonic Wars with the first recovery of a frozen mammoth. The path to figuring out the mammoth was traveled by merchants, diplomats, missionaries, cranky doctors, collectors of natural wonders, Swedish POWs, Peter the Great, Ben Franklin, the inventor of hot chocolate, and even one pirate.

McKay brings together dozens of original documents and illustrations, some ignored for centuries, to show how this odd assortment of characters solved the mystery of the mammoth and, in doing so, created the science of paleontology.

Discovering the Mammoth: A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science, McKay John J.