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Impossible Monsters - Michael Taylor

Impossible Monsters

Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion

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Buch | Softcover
512 Seiten
2025
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-09672-6 (ISBN)
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“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age.
When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country’s southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had in fact discovered the “first” ichthyosaur, and over the next seventy-five years—as the science of paleontology developed, as Charles Darwin posited radical new theories of evolutionary biology, and as scholars began to identify the internal inconsistencies of the Scriptures—everything changed. Beginning with the archbishop who dated the creation of the world to 6 p.m. on October 22, 4004 BC, and told through the lives of the nineteenth-century men and women who found and argued about these seemingly impossible, history-rewriting fossils, Impossible Monsters reveals the central role of dinosaurs and their discovery in toppling traditional religious authority, and in changing perceptions about the Bible, history, and mankind’s place in the world.

Michael Taylor is a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. His first book, The Interest, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.5.2025
Zusatzinfo 40 illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Naturwissenschaft
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Evolution
ISBN-10 1-324-09672-1 / 1324096721
ISBN-13 978-1-324-09672-6 / 9781324096726
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