Adrian Currie, Rock, Bone and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.39757Keywords:
Palaeontology, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Historiography, EpistemologyAbstract
Adrian Currie, Rock, Bone and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018), ix + 372 pp. ISBN: 9-780-26203-726-6. $35 (hbk).References
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