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Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World

By Martin J. S. Rudwick

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1995
ISBN
9780226149035
DOI
10.7208/9780226149035
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
28 MB (28991002 bytes)
Pages
294\294
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-15 06:35:22

Description

How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.

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