Continents in Motion by Walter Sullivan
A history of discovery as revealing as the ways of science. The New York Times Offers the purest intellectual excitement, the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake... Wall Street Journal Beautifully illustrated, superbly written, and thoroughly documented. San Francisco Examiner This book presents a history of the idea of continental drift, which revolutionized our understanding of geology. Sullivan presents the idea from its tentative beginnings in the 19th century to the accumulation of overwhelming evidence in the 1960s. The second edition is extensively updated to reflect our current understanding of the basic geophysics underlying continental drift as well as more recent corroborating evidence. The book is written at a slightly more technical level than the average New York Times science news story. Walter Sullivan, as Science Editor of the New York Times, witnessed many of the scientific discoveries described here, having, for example, accompanied four research expeditions to Antarctica.
Walter Sullivan is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University where he has taught since 1948. After serving during World War II as an officer in the Marine Corps and then completing his education at Vanderbilt and the University of Iowa, he returned to Nashville, where he was born and where he has lived and worked for most of his life.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780883187043 |
| ISBN 10 | 0883187043 |
| Title | Continents in Motion |
| Author | Walter Sullivan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | American Institute of Physics |
| Year published | 1993-07-18 |
| Number of pages | 425 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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