Patrons of Paleontology - How Government Support Shaped a Science

Jane P. Davidson is Professor of Art History at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is author of The Bone Sharp: The Life of Edward Drinker Cope, A History of Paleontology Illustration, and Early Modern Supernatural: The Dark Side of European Culture 1400-1700.

List of contents

Introduction: The Cost of Doing Business

1. The Beginnings of Government Support for Paleontology

2. Eighteenth-century and Early Nineteenth-century Paleontologists and Patrons

3. Developments in Government Support for Paleontology in the United States Between 1830 to About 1880

4. Paleontology in Mid Nineteenth-Century Surveys Outside the United States

5. Government Support for Paleontology in the Late Nineteenth Century and the Turn of the Twentieth Century: 1880 to about 1940

Conclusion: The Chain of Paleontology

Appendix: Glossary of Prominent Patrons and Paleontologists

Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources

Bibliography of Secondary Sources

Index

About the author

Jane P. Davidson is Professor of Art History at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is author of The Bone Sharp: The Life of Edward Drinker Cope, A History of Paleontology Illustration, and Early Modern Supernatural: The Dark Side of European Culture 1400-1700.

Product details

• Authors: Jane P Davidson, Jane P. Davidson
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780253025715
• ISBN: 978-0-253-02571-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Life of the Past; Life of the Past
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous