Assembling the Dinosaur, Rieppel Lukas

Автор: Rieppel Lukas
Название: Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle
ISBN: 067473758X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674737587
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Lukas Rieppel shows how dinosaurs gripped the popular imagination and became emblems of America`s industrial power and economic prosperity during the Gilded Age. Spectacular fossils were displayed in museums financed by North America`s wealthiest tycoons, to cement their reputation as both benefactors of science and fierce capitalists.

Автор: Rieppel Olivier
Название: Mesozoic Sea Dragons: Triassic Marine Life from the Ancient Tropical Lagoon of Monte San Giorgio
ISBN: 0253040116 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253040114
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Told in rich detail and with gorgeous color recreations, this is the story of marine life in the age before the dinosaurs. During the Middle Triassic Period (247–237 million years ago), the mountain of Monte San Giorgio in Switzerland was a tropical lagoon. Today, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it boasts an astonishing fossil record of marine life from that time. Attracted to an incredibly diverse and well-preserved set of fossils, Swiss and Italian paleontologists have been excavating the mountain since 1850.
Synthesizing and interpreting over a century of discoveries through a critical twenty-first century lens, paleontologist Olivier Rieppel tells for the first time the complete story of the fish and marine reptiles who made that long-ago lagoon their home. Through careful analysis and vividly rendered recreations, he offers memorable glimpses of not only what Thalattosaurs, Protorosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Pachypleurosaurs, and other marine life looked like but how they moved and lived in the lagoon.
An invaluable resource for specialists and accessible to all, this book is essential to all who are fascinated with ancient marine life.

Автор: Rieppel Lukas
Название: Osiris, Volume 33
ISBN: 022660232X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226602325
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Science and Capitalism Entangled Histories.

Автор: Rieppel Lukas
Название: Assembling the Dinosaur
ISBN: 1974961702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781974961702
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Цена: 45970.00 T
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Описание: Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world's largest industrial economy, and creatures like tyrannosaurus, brontosaurus, and triceratops became emblems of American capitalism. Large, fierce, and spectacular, American dinosaurs dominated the popular imagination, making front-page headlines and appearing in feature films. Assembling the Dinosaur follows dinosaur fossils from the field to the museum and into the commercial culture of North America's Gilded Age. Business tycoons like Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan made common cause with vertebrate paleontologists to capitalize on the widespread appeal of dinosaurs, using them to project American exceptionalism back into prehistory. Learning from the show-stopping techniques of P. T. Barnum, museums exhibited dinosaurs to attract, entertain, and educate the public. By assembling the skeletons of dinosaurs into eye-catching displays, wealthy industrialists sought to cement their own reputations as generous benefactors of science, showing that modern capitalism could produce public goods in addition to profits. Behind the scenes, museums adopted corporate management practices to control the movement of dinosaur bones, restricting their circulation to influence their meaning and value in popular culture.