Rock Blog

So much of what we get is the western view of the history of science. I was delighted to run across this resource, which I really must go back and examine thoroughly:

Copyright 1999, from the History of Science Society
An Introduction to the History of Science in Non-Western Traditions

edited by: Douglas Allchin and Robert DeKosky

The publication covers China, India, Africa, Native America, Latin America, Australia and the Pacific and Japan.

The History of Science Society has some other interesting resources at: http://www.hssonline.org/teach_res/index.html

This link points to another of the Geological Society of America’s Rock Star Series. This entry is also wrriten by retired member of the Geological Survey of Canada, Charles H. Smith, and covers George Mercer Dawson.

George Mercer Dawson: Pioneer Explorer of Western Canada

This is an Adobe Acrobat file. AN HTML version is available online.

EOSC 311 Students: this entry is relevant to Module 2.

The Geological Socieity of America has a nice Series of biographies of notable geologists in history called Rock Stars (*sigh*). This entry by Charles H. Smith, a retired geologist from the Geological Survey of Canada, covers Sir William Edmond Logan:

Sir William Edmond Logan, Father of Canadian Geology: His Passion Was Precision.

This is an Adobe Acrobat File.

For any of my EOSC 311 students – this entry is relevant to Module 2.