caa a22 4500 386398739 CHVBK 20180307112149.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0007087400025528 doi S0007087400025528 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0007087400025528 Smith Crosbie History of Science Unit, Physics Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NR, U.K. William Hopkins and the shaping of Dynamical Geology: 1830-1860 [Elektronische Daten] [Crosbie Smith] ‘Hitherto want of accuracy and definiteness have often been brought as a charge against geology, and sometimes only with too much justice', wrote Archibald Geikie in a review of Sir Roderick Murchison's Siluria (1867). ‘We seem now to be entering, however, upon a new era, when there will be infused into geological methods and speculation, some of the precision of the exact sciences'. Geikie's judgement echoed an appeal made some thirty years earlier by William Hopkins (1793-1866) that the science of geology needed to be ‘elevated' from a level of ‘indeterminate generalities' to a rank among the stricter physical sciences. This paper aims to analyse, in the context of broader trends favouring measurement and mathematics in British scientific practice, Hopkins' role in the promotion of dynamical geology as a major new complement to stratigraphical geology such that, for example, in the first edition of Geikie's Textbook of Geology (1882) the dynamical and stratigraphical components each filled 376 pages. Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1989 The British Journal for the History of Science Cambridge University Press 22/1(1989-03), 27-52 0007-0874 22:1<27 1989 22 BJH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400025528 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400025528 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Smith Crosbie History of Science Unit, Physics Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NR, U.K NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The British Journal for the History of Science Cambridge University Press 22/1(1989-03), 27-52 0007-0874 22:1<27 1989 22 BJH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge