Name: Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie'S Dinosaur, Twentieth Anniversary Edition (en Inglés)
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Author: Rea, Tom
ISBN: 9780822966708

portada Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie'S Dinosaur, Twentieth Anniversary Edition (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Tom Rea

Editorial

University of Pittsburgh Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm

Peso

0.48 kg.

ISBN13

9780822966708

N° edición

Categorías

Historia de la ciencia
Paleontología

Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie'S Dinosaur, Twentieth Anniversary Edition (en Inglés)

Tom Rea (Autor) · University of Pittsburgh Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie'S Dinosaur, Twentieth Anniversary Edition (en Inglés)"

With a New Foreword by Matthew C. Lamanna and a New Afterword by Tom ReaLess than one hundred years ago, Diplodocus carnegii--named after industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie--was the most famous dinosaur on the planet. The most complete fossil skeleton unearthed to date, and one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, Diplodocus was displayed in a dozen museums around the world and viewed by millions of people. Bone Wars explains how a fossil unearthed in the badlands of Wyoming in 1899 helped give birth to the public's fascination with prehistoric beasts. Rea also traces the evolution of scientific thought regarding dinosaurs and reveals the double-crosses and behind-the-scenes deals that marked the early years of bone hunting. With the help of letters found in scattered archives, Tom Rea recreates a remarkable story of hubris, hope, and turn-of-the-century science. He focuses on the roles of five men: Wyoming fossil hunter Bill Reed; paleontologists Jacob Wortman--in charge of the expedition that discovered Carnegie's dinosaur--and John Bell Hatcher; William Holland, imperious director of the recently founded Carnegie Museum; and Carnegie himself, smitten with the colossal animals after reading a story in the New York Journal and Advertiser. What emerges is the picture of an era reminiscent of today: technology advancing by leaps and bounds; the press happy to sensationalize anything that turned up; huge amounts of capital ending up in the hands of a small number of people; and some devoted individuals placing honest research above personal gain.