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Impossible Monsters

By Michael Taylor

Impossible Monsters Mathematics

Impossible Monsters

By Michael Taylor

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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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
496
Release Date:
2024-07-16
Publication Date:
2024-07-16
Publisher:
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1324093927
ISBN13:
9781324093923
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
728 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
42 cm
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