Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison
Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison
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GBPSir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792–1871) was an influential Scottish geologist best known for his classification of Palaeozoic rocks into the Silurian system. After early military experience in the Peninsular War, he resigned his commission; a chance meeting with Sir Humphrey Davy led him subsequently to pursue a scientific career. The Silurian System, published in 1839, was a highly influential study, which established the oldest contemporary classification of fossil-bearing strata. Murchison was appointed President of the Royal Geographical Society in 1843. These volumes, first published in 1875, use information taken from Murchison's private journals and correspondence. Archibald Geikie (1835–1924) provides a detailed account of his mentor's life and work in the context of geology as a developing science in the early nineteenth century, and provides a fascinating insight into the life and work of this eminent Victorian geologist. Volume 1 describes Murchison's early life and geological studies until 1842.
Product details
June 2011Paperback
9781108072342
428 pages
216 × 140 × 24 mm
0.54kg
30 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Ancestry. School-days
- 2. First years of a soldier's life
- 3. Six months of the Peninsular War
- 4. Military life at home
- 5. Italy and art
- 6. Five years of fox-hunting
- 7. Rise of geology in Britain
- 8. First years of scientific life at home
- 9. First geological raids into the continent
- 10. The invasion of Grauwacke
- 11. The Geological Society, and social life in London
- 12. The Silurian system
- 13. The Devonian system
- 14. A geological tour in northern Russia
- 15. Central and southern Russia, and the Ural Mountains
- 16. The chair of the Geological Society.
