The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush write by Paul D. Brinkman. This book was released on 2010-07-15. The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The so-called “Bone Wars” of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinosaur rush, which took place around the turn of the twentieth century, brought the prehistoric beasts back to life. These later expeditions—which involved new competitors hailing from leading natural history museums in New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh—yielded specimens that would be reconstructed into the colossal skeletons that thrill visitors today in museum halls across the country. Reconsidering the fossil speculation, the museum displays, and the media frenzy that ushered dinosaurs into the American public consciousness, Paul Brinkman takes us back to the birth of dinomania, the modern obsession with all things Jurassic. Featuring engaging and colorful personalities and motivations both altruistic and ignoble, The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush shows that these later expeditions were just as foundational—if not more so—to the establishment of paleontology and the budding collections of museums than the more famous Cope and Marsh treks. With adventure, intrigue, and rivalry, this is science at its most swashbuckling.
The Second American Jurassic Dinosaur Rush, 1895-1905
The Second American Jurassic Dinosaur Rush, 1895-1905 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Second American Jurassic Dinosaur Rush, 1895-1905 write by Paul D. Brinkman. This book was released on 2005. The Second American Jurassic Dinosaur Rush, 1895-1905 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
American Dinosaur Abroad
American Dinosaur Abroad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Dinosaur Abroad write by Ilja Nieuwland. This book was released on 2019-05-15. American Dinosaur Abroad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In early July 1899, an excavation team of paleontologists sponsored by Andrew Carnegie discovered the fossil remains in Wyoming of what was then the longest and largest dinosaur on record. Named after its benefactor, the Diplodocus carnegii—or Dippy, as it’s known today—was shipped to Pittsburgh and later mounted and unveiled at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1907. Carnegie’s pursuit of dinosaurs in the American West and the ensuing dinomania of the late nineteenth century coincided with his broader political ambitions to establish a lasting world peace and avoid further international conflict. An ardent philanthropist and patriot, Carnegie gifted his first plaster cast of Dippy to the British Museum at the behest of King Edward VII in 1902, an impulsive diplomatic gesture that would result in the donation of at least seven reproductions to museums across Europe and Latin America over the next decade, in England, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Russia, Argentina, and Spain. In this largely untold history, Ilja Nieuwland explores the influence of Andrew Carnegie’s prized skeleton on European culture through the dissemination, reception, and agency of his plaster casts, revealing much about the social, political, cultural, and scientific context of the early twentieth century.
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Extinct Monsters to Deep Time write by Diana E. Marsh. This book was released on 2019-02-18. Extinct Monsters to Deep Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century. Marsh describes participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time. As a museum ethnography, the book provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world’s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public.
My Beloved Brontosaurus
My Beloved Brontosaurus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Beloved Brontosaurus write by Brian Switek. This book was released on 2013-04-16. My Beloved Brontosaurus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Hudson Booksellers Staff Pick for the Best Books of 2013 One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring Science Books A Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff Pick Dinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, occupy a sacred place in our childhoods. They loom over museum halls, thunder through movies, and are a fundamental part of our collective imagination. In My Beloved Brontosaurus, the dinosaur fanatic Brian Switek enriches the childlike sense of wonder these amazing creatures instill in us. Investigating the latest discoveries in paleontology, he breathes new life into old bones. Switek reunites us with these mysterious creatures as he visits desolate excavation sites and hallowed museum vaults, exploring everything from the sex life of Apatosaurus and T. rex's feather-laden body to just why dinosaurs vanished. (And of course, on his journey, he celebrates the book's titular hero, "Brontosaurus"—who suffered a second extinction when we learned he never existed at all—as a symbol of scientific progress.) With infectious enthusiasm, Switek questions what we've long held to be true about these beasts, weaving in stories from his obsession with dinosaurs, which started when he was just knee-high to a Stegosaurus. Endearing, surprising, and essential to our understanding of our own evolution and our place on Earth, My Beloved Brontosaurus is a book that dinosaur fans and anyone interested in scientific progress will cherish for years to come.
