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Ralph O'Connor tracks the astonishing growth of geology's prestige in Briatin, exploring how a new geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Bible-reading public at the turn of the 19th century.O'Connor, Ralph is the author of 'Earth on Show Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856', published 2007 under ISBN 9780226616681 and ISBN 0226616681.
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