Show me the bone
reconstructing prehistoric monsters in nineteenth-century Britain and America
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Author
Publication
2016 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
119,000 words, Guess
Page Count
476 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780226332734
- ISBN-139780226332871
- ISBN-10022633273X
- ISBN-10022633287X
- Library of Congress Control Number2015025656
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number913164287
- Better World Books9780226332734
- Open LibraryOL30397377M
Classifications
- DDC560
- LCCQE705.A1 D39 2016
- LCCQE705.A1D39 2016
Description
Nineteenth-century paleontologists, such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen, were heralded as scientific virtuosos, sometimes even veritable wizards, capable of resurrecting the denizens of an ancient past from a mere glance at a fragmentary bone. Such extraordinary feats of predictive reasoning relied on the law of correlation, which proposed that each element of an animal corresponds mutually with each of the others, so that a carnivorous tooth must be accompanied by a certain kind of jawbone, neck, stomach, limbs and feet. 'Show Me the Bone' tells the story of the rise and fall of this famous claim.
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