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The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times. by Adrienne Mayor

The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times.

Adrienne Mayor
384 pages
Princeton University Press
Jan 2000
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review Since fossils have presumably existed for millions of years, why don't we see much paleontological thought from ancient writers? Classics scholar Adrienne Mayor suggests that we can, in fact, learn much about the Greek and Roman attitudes toward fossils if we turn to a surprising source of data and theory: their myths. In
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