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Review: M.V. Lomonosov. On the Strata of the Earth: A Translation by Stephen M. Rowland and Slava Korolevстатья Рецензия
- Автор: Vtorov I.P.
- Журнал: Earth Sciences history
- Том: 33
- Номер: 2
- Год издания: 2014
- Первая страница: 366
- Последняя страница: 367
- DOI: 10.17704/eshi.33.2.66w4545487173119
- Аннотация: ON THE STRATA OF THE EARTH: A TRANSLATION OF [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.]. Lomonosov M.V. / translated by Stephen M. Rowland and Slava Korolev. 2012. Boulder: Geological Society of America Special Paper 485. 41 pp. Soft-cover $40. (Amazon e-document $9.95). The translation of On the Strata of the Earth is a present to lovers of the history of the earth sciences. It reveals the geological mind of eighteenth-century Russian academician and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765). The book's foreword, by Irena Malakhova, describes this unique person whose work predates James Hutton's Theory of the Earth. In 1763, Lomonosov published a 436-page milestone monograph titled First Principles of Metallurgy or The Science of Ore Bodies. The book was used as a manual for many Russian mining and metallurgical projects, mostly in the Ural area (Lemmlein, 1949, On the Strata: 314). The full book has never been translated. The translation under review here is a lengthy, last-but-not-least appendix to First Principles, titled On the Strata of the Earth. It is widely considered to be Lomonosov's most significant geological work. Lomonosov collected and analyzed facts about what we call "general geology" throughout his life and he wrote this treatise in 1757-1759. This translation is a great example of an early Russian scientific paper. It was reprinted in Russia in 1794, 1803, 1902, 1911, 1934, 1949 and 1954. The century gap between the publication dates indicates when Lomonosov's geological ideas were not in use, underscoring that he was ahead of his time. Around the turn of the twentieth century, Vladimir Vernadsky rediscovered Lomonosov, describing his work in papers published in 1900, 1901 and 1911. Vernadsky's teacher, Vasily Dokuchaev, who opened the modern soil science era with his book Russian Chernozem... http://earthscienceshistory.org/doi/pdf/10.17704/eshi.33.2.66w4545487173119
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