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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791784603321

Autore

Rudwick M. J. S

Titolo

The great Devonian controversy : the shaping of scientific knowledge among gentlemanly specialists / / Martin J.S. Rudwick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 1985

ISBN

0-226-73100-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (529 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Collana

Science and its conceptual foundations

Classificazione

RB 10023

Disciplina

551.7/4

Soggetti

Geology, Stratigraphic - Devonian

Science - History

Geology - History

Geology - England - Devon

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 463-483) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Setting the scene -- pt. 2. The plot unfolds -- pt. 3. The action analyzed.

Sommario/riassunto

"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 geology."-David R. Oldroyd, Science