Adam C Sedgwick

Insects

A Discourse on the Studies of the University

Alfred Russel Wallace

…Prominent anatomists and geologists such as Georges Cuvier, Richard Owen, Adam Sedgwick, and Charles Lyell attacked it vigorously.[55][56] It has been suggested that Wallace accepted the idea of the transmutation of species in part because he was always inclined to favour radical ideas in po...

A syllabus of a course of lectures on geology by A: Sedgwick

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Adam Sedgwick, Geologist and Dalesman, 1785-1873: A Biography in Twelve Themes by Colin Speakman (1982-06-01)

Adam Sedgwick, Geologist and Dalesman, 1785-1873: A Biography in Twelve Themes

The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, Vol. 2Domestic side of Sedgwick's character. Explorations at Bartlow. Death of Dr Ainger. Contested election For High Steward. Agassiz and the glacial theory. New Geological Museum. Count Münster's collection. Difficulties of Church me...

A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, Comprising Minute Directions for the Tourist: With Mr. Wordsworth's Description of the Scenery of the Country, ... Library Collection - Earth Science)

First published in 1853, this is a comprehensive guide to the British Lake District. It features contributions from William Wordsworth and the geologist Adam Sedgwick, as well as a number of shorter sections by local experts on subjects such as botany and toponymy. The first part comprises detailed ...

Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader

The question of affect is central to critical theory, psychology, politics, and the entire range of the humanities; but no discipline, including psychoanalysis, has offered a theory of affect that would be rich enough to account for the delicacy and power, the evanescence and durability, the bodily ...

The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 Separate Memoirs

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A Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks: With a Systematic Description of the British Palaeozoic Fossils in the Geological ... Library Collection - Earth Science)

Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), one of the founders of modern geology, was Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge from 1818 until his death. During his career, advances in stratigraphy and palaeontology revolutionised the subject, and Sedgwick participated in heated controversies about the classif...