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CONTENTS
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5 Epigraph
6 A Comprehensive History Implies the Study of Ignorance Notes
7 Part I Gaps in Enlightenment Knowledge of the Earth 1. The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Notes 2. The Age of the Earth? Notes 3. Imagining the Earth’s Internal Structure Notes 4. The Mystery of the Poles Notes 5. The Unfathomable Mysteries of the Deep Notes 6. Discovering Mountain Notes 7. Mysterious Glaciers Notes 8. A Fascination with Volcanoes Notes 9. The Birth of Meteorology Notes 10. Conquering the Skies 11. The State of Scientific Ignorance at the End of the Age of Enlightenment
8 Part II A Gradual Decline in Ignorance (1800–1850) 12. Understanding Glaciers Notes 13. The Birth of Geology Notes 14. Volcanoes and the Mystery of ‘Dry Fogs’ Notes 15. The Ocean Depths and the Fear of the Unknown Notes 16. Reading Clouds and the Beaufort Scale Notes 17. The Poles Remain a Mystery Notes 18. The State of Scientific Ignorance in the Early 1860s
9 Part III Shrinking the Boundaries of Ignorance (1860–1900) 19. Exploring the Ocean Depths Notes 20. The Development of Dynamic Meteorology Notes 21. Manned Flight and the Discovery of the Troposphere and Stratosphere Notes 22. Scientific Volcanology and the Birth of Seismology Notes 23. Measuring the Grip of Ice Notes 24. Solving the Mysteries of Rivers: Fluvialism, Hydrology and Speleology Notes 25. A New Approach to Reading the Globe Notes 26. Was There Open Sea at the Poles? Notes 27. The Earth Sciences Slowly Filter into General Knowledge Notes 28. Measuring Ignorance at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
10 Index
Guide
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