Scenes from Deep Time - Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World

How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.

Summary

Informed by fossil discoveries, scientists and artists collaborated during the years before Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published to produce images of a prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. This book explores the implications of reconstructing a past humans have never seen.

Product details

• Authors: Martin J. S. Rudwick, Professor Martin J. S. Rudwick, Rudwick Martin J. S.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.1995
• EAN: 9780226731056
• ISBN: 978-0-226-73105-6
• No. of pages: 294
• Dimensions: 21 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; SCIENCE / History, ART / History / General, SCIENCE / Paleontology, DESIGN / History & Criticism, History of art / art & design styles, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, History of Art, History of Science, history of design, Palaeontology, Illustration & commercial art, Illustration and commercial art