Kenneth L. Taylor
Historian of geology
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kenneth L. Taylor is an American historian of geology. Education and career At Harvard University, Taylor graduated in the specialty "History and Science" with three degrees: A.B. in 1962, A.M. in 1965, and Ph.D. in 1968. His doctoral advisors were I. Bernard Cohen and Everett Mendelsohn. In the department of the history of science at the University of Oklahoma, Taylor was an assistant professor from 1967 to 1972, an associate professor from 1972 to 1986, and a full professor from 1986 to 2006, when he retired as professor emeritus. He chaired his department for 14 years, from 1979 to 1992, and acted as interim chair in autumn 1978 and spring 1999.
Kenneth L. Taylor's Published Works
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- A PECULIARLY PERSONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA: WHAT DESMAREST'S GÉOGRAPHIE-PHYSIQUE TELLS US ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORK (2013) (16)
- The Beginnings of A Geological Naturalist: Desmarest, The PrintedWord, and Nature (2001) (4)
- Desmarest's "Determination of Some Epochs of Nature through Volcanic Products" (1775/1779) (2009) (4)
- Earth And Heaven, 1750-1800: Enlightenment Ideas About The Relevance To Geology Of Extraterrestrial Operations And Events (1998) (3)
- New Light on Geological Mapping in Auvergne during the Eighteenth Century: The Pasumot-Desmarest Collaboration (1994) (3)
- American Geological Investigations and the French, 1750-1850 (1990) (3)
- Before volcanoes became ordinary (2016) (3)
- Geological travellers in Auvergne, 1751–1800 (2007) (2)
- Hugh Torrens, The Practice of British Geology, 1750–1850. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002 (2003) (2)
- Buffon, Desmarest and the ordering of geological events in époques (2001) (2)
- Historians of geology in the field: a half-century of INHIGEO excursions (2016) (2)
- Book Review:Sciences of the Earth: An Encyclopedia of Events, People, and Phenomena Gregory A. Good (2000) (1)
- Book Review:Pallas' Theory of the Earth in German (1778): Translation and Reevaluation; Reaction by a Contemporary: H.-B. de Saussure Albert V. Carozzi, Marguerite Carozzi (1993) (1)
- Edward Battersby Bailey, James Hutton - the Founder of Modern Geology (1975) (1)
- Studies on Eighteenth-Century Geology (2011) (1)
- The Establishment of Geohistory (2009) (1)
- Marivetz, Goussier, and Planet Earth: A Late Enlightenment Geo-Physical Project (2006) (0)
- Alexander M. Ospovat, Historian of Geology, 1923-2010 (2011) (0)
- Book Review:Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time Stephen Jay Gould (1987) (0)
- Book Review:North from the Hook: 150 Years of the Geological Survey of Ireland Gordon L. Herries Davies (1997) (0)
- Telliamed in its time (2011) (0)
- Voltaire's Attitude toward Geology. Marguerite Carozzi (1983) (0)
- David B. Kitts, Metageologist, 1923-2010 (2011) (0)
- Theory and Geology. (Book Reviews: The Earth in Decay. A History of British Geomorphology 1578-1878) (1971) (0)
- Book Review:Sedimentary Rocks: Concepts and History Albert V. Carozzi (1977) (0)
- Early geology reexamined. (1978) (0)
- Telliamed in its time (2011) (0)
- Eloge: Thomas Malcolm Smith, Jr., 1921–2005 (2005) (0)
- Book Review:The Earth Generated and Anatomized: An Early Eighteenth Century Theory of the Earth William Hobbs, Roy Porter (1982) (0)
- Raspail. Scientist and Reformer. Dora B. Weiner. With a chapter by Simone Raspail. Columbia University Press, New York, 1968. xvi + 336 pp., illus. $11 (1969) (0)
- History through Bibliography: Natural Science Books in English, 1600-1900 . David M. Knight. Praeger, New York, 1972. x, 262 pp., illus. $22.50. Illustrated Books Series. (1973) (0)
- Transgas emergency LNG supplies Wisconsin towns via portable pipeline (1985) (0)
- Gordon L. Davies, The Earth in Decay : A History of British Geomorphology, 1578-1878 (1974) (0)
- CECIL J. SCHNEER (1923–2017) (2018) (0)
- Book Review:The Great Chain of History: William Buckland and the English School of Geology (1814-1849) Nicolas A. Rupke (1985) (0)
- A Naturalist of Note (1997) (0)
- Four Hitherto Unpublished Geological Lectures Given by Sir Humphry Davy in 1805. Humphry DavyHumphry Davy on Geology: The 1805 Lectures for the General Audience. Humphry Davy , Robert Siegfried , Robert H. Dott, Jr. (1981) (0)
- URSULA B. MARVIN (1921–2018), PLANETARY GEOLOGIST AND HISTORIAN OF GEOLOGY (2018) (0)
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