The Greeks The first people to try and develop the theory behind their observations were the Greeks: people such as Pythagoras, who concentrated on a mathematical view of the world. Similarly ...
That's because these biographers of the primordial deal in increments of millions and even billions of years as they struggle to reconstruct our planet's life history, which is so vast that those ...
O'Hara's book provides a brief and accessible account of the major events in the history of geology over the last two hundred years ... Simon Winchester - author of The Map That Changed the World ...