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

Publication subTitle ：Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World

Author： Martin J. S. Rudwick  

Publisher： University of Chicago Press‎

Publication year： 1995

E-ISBN: 9780226149035

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780226731049

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780226731056

Subject： N Pandect of Natural Science

Keyword： 自然科学总论

Language： ENG

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Description

How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwins 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.

Chapter

Contents

Introduction

1. Creation and the Flood

2. Keyholes into the Past

3. Monsters of the Ancient World

4. A First Sequence of Scenes

5. Domesticating the Monsters

6. The Genre Established

7. Making Sense of It All

Notes

Sources for Figures and Texts

Bibliography

Index

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