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Recent Select Publications

The Earth Sciences in the Enlightenment: Studies on the Early Development of Geology. Forthcoming late 2007 from Ashgate Publishing. A volume in the Variorum Collected Studies Series.

"Geological Travellers in Auvergne, 1751-1800," in Four Centuries of Geological Travel, edited by Patrick Wyse Jackson, Geological Society of London, Special Publication 287, 2007, pp. 73-96.

"Marivetz, Goussier, and Planet Earth: A Late Enlightenment Geo-Physical Project," Centaurus, 48 (2006), pp. 258-283.

“Earth, Theories of the,” in Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World [second author, jointly with Kerry V. Magruder]. Ed. by Jonathan Dewald. Charles Scribner’s Sons, publishers, 2004 [appeared in 2003]. Vol. 2, pp. 222-226.

“Geology,” in Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World [first author, jointly with Kerry V. Magruder]. Ed. by Jonathan Dewald. Charles Scribner’s Sons, publishers, 2004 [appeared in 2003]. Vol. 3, 39-42.

“Un commentaire anonyme inédit sur les observations et les idées de William Hamilton (1730-1803) relatives aux phénomènes volcaniques de la région de Naples,” Travaux du Comité Français d’Histoire de la Géologie, 3ème série, 15(2001), pp. 1-35. [Published in 2002].

“The Beginnings of a Geological Naturalist: Desmarest, the Printed Word, and Nature,” Earth Sciences History, 20(2001) pp. 44-61. [Published 2002; English version of “La Genèse d’un naturaliste,” published in Paris in 1997]

“Two Ways of Imagining the Earth at the Close of the 18th Century: Descriptive and Theoretical Traditions in Early Geology,” in Abraham Gottlob Werner and the Foundation of the Geological Sciences, ed. by Helmuth Albrecht and Roland Ladwig, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, 2002. Freiberger Forschungshefte, vol. D-207, pp. 369-378.

“La volcanologie au XVIIIe siècle,” Pour la science [French version of Scientific American], no. 286 (August 2001) 8-10. [also published on the journal’s internet site: http://www.pourlascience.com]

“Buffon, Desmarest, and the Ordering of Geological Events in Époques,” in The Age of the Earth: from 4004 BC to AD 2002, ed. by C. L. E. Lewis and S. J. Knell, Geological Society of London Special Publication 190, 2001, pp. 39-49.