Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of DinosaursCambridge University Press, 13/01/1999 - 290 من الصفحات Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs is a scholarly yet accessible biography--the first in a generation--of a pioneering dinosaur hunter and scholar. Gideon Mantell discovered the Iguanodon (a famous tale set right in this book) and several other dinosaur species, spent over twenty-five years restoring Iguanodon fossils, and helped establish the idea of an Age of Reptiles that ended with their extinction at the conclusion of the Mesozoic Era. He had significant interaction with such well-known figures as James Parkinson, Georges Cuvier, Charles Lyell, Roderick Murchison, Charles Darwin, and Richard Owen. Dennis Dean, a well-known scholar of geology and the Victorian era, here places Mantell's career in its cultural context, employing original research in archives throughout the world, including the previously unexamined Mantell family papers in New Zealand. |
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Map of southeast England page | 3 |
Oryctology | 19 |
Fossils of the South Downs | 36 |
Iguanodon | 52 |
The Geology of Sussex | 86 |
Hylaeosaurus | 106 |
Old Steine | 126 |
Wonders of Geology | 150 |
Crescent Lodge | 171 |
IO Medals of Creation | 192 |
Bird tracks and trackmaker | 196 |
Chester Square | 216 |
Petrifactions and Their Teachings | 236 |
Norwood Park | 259 |
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Agassiz Age of Reptiles AJSA animal appeared Bakewell BGaz birds BMNH bones Brighton British Museum Buckland Cetiosaurus Chalk CL-GM Clift collection Conybeare copy Cretaceous crocodiles Cuckfield Cuvier dinosaur discovered discovery edition England Etheldred Benett fishes formation Foss SD fossil fossil reptiles freshwater friends further Geol Geological Society Gideon Mantell GM-BS GM's Hawkins Hylaeosaurus ichthyosaurs iguana Iguanodon Isle of Wight John journal July June later lectures letter Lewes lizard London Lyell Maidstone Iguanodon mammals Mantell's Mantellian marine Medals Megalosaurus Mosasaurus Murchison Natural History Organic Remains Owen Owen's paper Parkinson Pelorosaurus Petrif plates Plesiosaurus published remarks reptilian Royal Society Sandstone saurian scientific Sept Silliman South Downs Sowerby species specimens Stonesfield strata stratigraphical surgeon Sussex teeth Telerpeton Thomas Tilgate Forest tion tooth vertebrae Vestiges visited Weald Wealden Whiteman's Green William William Buckland wrote Yale Zealand