THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GLACIAL THEORY, 1800-1870
Keith Montgomery
University of
Wisconsin - Marathon County
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PROJECT ORIENTATION
-
Read the
Introduction -- this provides context within
the period 1800-1840.
- As an orientation to the specific issues, people, and places, tour Europe in the
early 19th Century using GoogleEarth:
GoogleEarth instructions and data
file.
- Read the Episodes --
these present the details.
- Either A or B:
- Complete the
1840 Assessment and Debate
research and writing if you are completing a research paper ("Research
Option" Paper 1)
- complete the
more
general questions in preparation for more general class discussion
("Reading Option") .
- Next, learn about an “1840 visit”
that one of the protagonists made to Britain in 1840 and
a debate at one of
the continent's leading scientific societies and
in print, and assess their impacts on the
larger debate about glaciation.
- If you are on the Research Option, then complete the
Post- 1840 Assessment and Debate research and writing ("Research Option"
Paper 2).
- Finally, read about the “Final
Outcomes” and some “Twentieth Century Follow-up.”
There is a comprehensive
Bibliography with links to the original, 19th
Century sources.
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