03163nam 2200685 a 450 991079178460332120230216173944.00-226-73100-610.7208/9780226731001(CKB)2560000000061134(EBL)665709(OCoLC)707067843(SSID)ssj0000537257(PQKBManifestationID)12251885(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537257(PQKBWorkID)10553849(PQKB)10351554(MiAaPQ)EBC665709(DE-B1597)535725(OCoLC)956670089(DE-B1597)9780226731001(Au-PeEL)EBL665709(CaPaEBR)ebr10453068(EXLCZ)99256000000006113419840824d1985 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe great Devonian controversy the shaping of scientific knowledge among gentlemanly specialists /Martin J.S. RudwickChicago :University of Chicago Press,1985.1 online resource (529 pages) illustrations, portraitsScience and its conceptual foundationsDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-73101-4 0-226-73102-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 463-483) and index.pt. 1. Setting the scene -- pt. 2. The plot unfolds -- pt. 3. The action analyzed."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, ScienceScience and its conceptual foundations.Geology, StratigraphicDevonianScienceHistoryGeologyHistoryGeologyEnglandDevonscience, scientist, knowledge, education, gentleman, controversial, history, historical, academic, scholarly, geology, geological, debate, intellectual, stratigraphic, system, period, college, university, textbook, professor, classroom, higher ed, academia, learning, rocks, critical, theory, theoretical, public, consensus, nature, natural.Geology, StratigraphicScienceHistory.GeologyHistory.Geology551.7/4RB 10023rvkRudwick M. J. S1486632MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791784603321The great Devonian controversy3706198UNINA