| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.1

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Book Review

Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology. By Noah Heringman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. xix + 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $47.50.
Well-written, enjoyable, informative, and amusing, this book should have a wide audience including researchers, postgraduates, and the general reader. Heringman brings insight, anecdote, and literature to his argument. This period of art, science, and natural philosophy is one of the most dynamic; a time of no barriers between disciplines. A scientist would be philosopher, writer, and poet, with perceptions and knowledge interlinked. Theories of creation or evolution were to reverberate over the decades to come. Geology and its understanding were philosophical inquiries into the reasons for human existence; challenging or supporting religious orthodoxy, interacting with society in art and literature. This shows how geology influenced people and thought; science was influenced and affected by landscape perception and interpretation.	1
Geology and the basic underlying rocks, translated into landform, are central to the understanding of landscapes and hence their appreciation. The rocks, and their inherent chemical and physical characteristics; their origins and the changes in material and in landform through time, remain mysterious and enigmatic.	. . .

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