Discovering the ice ages : international reception and consequences for a historical understanding of climate / by Tobias Krüger ; translated by Ann M. Hentschel.

Entdeckung der Eiszeiten. English

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

xix, 534 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- How Erratic Blocks Caught the Eye of Science -- Glacier Advances and Icy Theories : 1810-1830 -- Glacier and Ice-Age Theories in the First Half of the 1830's -- The Grand Synthesis -- International Reception of Glacial Theory -- The Search for Causes of the Ice Ages -- Conclusions.