Description: Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia's volcanoes, showing that the origin of the earth sciences emerged from a fusion of Western and non-Western cosmology, theology, anthropology, and geology.
Review Quotes: ". . . the extensively researched work is a profound contribution to the intersection of geography, religion, and the history of science. . . In Bobette's revision of the history of science in colonial Indonesia, the importance of non-western influence is illuminated, while the unity of science is preserved."--Benjamin Trumble "IIAS Review"