Inventing the Earth

This book chronicles how successive generations of natural
philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent
the view of the Earth over the past 250 years.

* * Chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers,
geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent different views
of the Earth over the last 250 years.

* Uses as its central viewpoint changing ideas about the
significance of the action of rain and rivers on the Earth's
surface.

* Shows how our contemporary "truths" have come to be
accepted and exposes the frailty of even the most impeccably
scientific visions of the Earth.