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

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ISBN: 9780226731056

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	RUDWICK MARTIN
Pub Date	18/01/1996
Binding	Paperback
Pages	294

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

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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.

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How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the years 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 fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. This volume presents over 100 rare illustrations from the 18th and 19th centuries, with the aim of exploring the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.