Impossible monsters : how the discovery of dinosaurs changed the world
Taylor, Michael (Michael Hugh), 1988-2025
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In 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain's southern shoreline - and so sparked a crisis that would engulf science and religion for the next six decades. By its end, the literal reading of the Bible had been overturned, science had been liberated from religion and the secular age had begun. 'Impossible Monsters' takes us into the lives and minds of the extraordinary men and women whose discovery of the dinosaurs revolutionised our understanding of the world, as well as those who resisted them and those, like Charles Darwin, who took great risks to construct a new account of the earth's and mankind's origins.
Main title:
Impossible monsters : how the discovery of dinosaurs changed the world / Michael Taylor.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2025.
Collation:
496 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2024.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781529931341 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
509
Language:
English
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BRN:
5459180