The Great Devonian Controversy : The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists
Martin J. S. Rudwick
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Chicago : : University of Chicago Press, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (529 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; List of Footnote Abbreviations; Dramatis Personae; Part I. Setting the Scene; Chapter 1. Scientific Research under a Historical Microscope; Chapter 2. Arenas of Gentlemanly Debate; Chapter 3. Unraveling the Earth; Part II. The Plot Unfolds; Chapter 4. Prelude: Unraveling the Greywacke; Chapter 5. The Controversy Goes Public; Chapter 6. Taming the Transition; Chapter 7. Devonshire Put to the Test; Chapter 8. Interpretative Maneuvers; Chapter 9. Shifting the Argument; Chapter 10. Big Books in Collision; Chapter 11. The Devonian System Reborn. - Chapter 12. Conquering the ContinentChapter 13. Creating a Consensus; Chapter 14. The Devonian Naturalized; Part III. The Action Analyzed; Chapter 15. The Shape of the Controversy; Chapter 16. The Shaping of Natural Knowledge; Appendices; A. ""And They Lived Happily Ever After""; B. The Devonian Modernized; C. Note on Prices and Incomes; Bibliography; Manuscript Sources; Printed Sources; Secondary References; Index. - ""Arguably the best work to date in the history of geology.""-David R. Oldroyd, Science""After a superficial first glance, most readers of good will and broad knowledge might dismiss [this book] as being too much about too little. They would be making one of the biggest mistakes in their intellectual lives. . . . [It] could become one of our century's key documents in understanding science and its history.""-Stephen Jay Gould, New York Review of Books""Surely one of the most important studies in the history of science of recent years, and arguably the best work to date in the history of geolog
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| ISBN | 0226731014
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