Earthquake Observers - Disaster Science From Lisbon to Richter

Informationen zum Autor Deborah R. Coen is associate professor of history at Barnard College! Columbia University. She is the author of Vienna in the Age of Uncertainly: Science! Liberalism! and Private Life! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This book explains how observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion into a field for scientific research! turning earthquakes into natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human sciences. Zusammenfassung Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This book explains how observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion into a field for scientific research! turning earthquakes into natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human sciences.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah R. Coen, Coen Deborah R.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.07.2014
• EAN: 9780226212050
• ISBN: 978-0-226-21205-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, 20th Century, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Seismology & Volcanism, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Science, Volcanology & seismology, Volcanology and seismology