《地球探赜索隐录——地质学思想史》是澳大利亚科学史家奥尔德罗伊德教授在多年研究的基础上,撰写的一部地质学通史著作。作者通过多方位、多视角的讨论,展示了人类认识地球的历史进程。在分析人类认识地球历史的同时,还阐述了作者的观点:在某种意义上,地球可以看作是有生命的实体;在宇宙中运行的地球,具有生命的根本特征。 The Earth’s Secret History - A History of Geological Thought is a masterpiece of geology history written by Professor Aldorod, an Australian historian of science, on the basis of years of research. Through a multi-faceted and multi-perspective discussion, the author shows the historical process of human understanding of the Earth. While analyzing human’s cognition of the earth’s history, it also expounds the author’s point of view: in a sense, the earth can be regarded as a living entity; the earth running in the universe has the fundamental characteristics of life.