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- W2100083592 abstract "This is not a book review published 50 years late but rather a still-timely retrospective on Elementary Seismology, the textbook written by Charles Francis Richter (1850–1913) and published in 1958 (Richter 1958). The golden anniversary of its publication provides the opportunity to acquaint or re-acquaint readers with this historic work and to evaluate its long-term significance.It is true that most of the knowledge contained in Elementary Seismology already was available to the seismologist in one archive or another before 1958, because Professor Richter's textbook was by intent a compilation and summary of the subject, not a work treating one particular new theory or branch of the field. One could give the book demerits for that reason and call it merely derivative, though Richter himself was one of the chief assemblers of that pre-1958 body of knowledge on which he drew. However, the book's great achievement is the fact that someone with such a deep knowledge of seismology could present it to such a broad audience and cover such a large field. That is a positive, not a negative, aspect of the book. Taking as his definition of seismology “the science of earthquakes and related phenomena” (Richter 1958, 3), Richter brightly illuminated the subject from many angles.⇓Charles F. Richter at home in southern California with his personal seismograph. Photo courtesy of California Institute of Technology. Before Richter and Elementary Seismology , there were other scientists whose one-volume works were classics of their time. One could single out Robert Mallet (1810–1881), whose fieldwork on the 1857 Naples Earthquake resulted in The First Principles of Observational Seismology (Mallet 1862). The title of his book is an unintentional double entendre, because in addition to exploring the fundamental or first principles of observational seismology, it was in fact the first significant …" @default.
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- W2100083592 title "Elementary Seismology 50 Years Later" @default.
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