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

• Autore: Rudwick M. J. S
• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 1985
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (529 pages) : illustrations, portraits
• Disciplina: 551.7/4
• Soggetto topico: Geology, Stratigraphic - Devonian; Science - History; Geology - History; Geology - England - Devon
• Soggetto non controllato: science, 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
• Classificazione: RB 10023
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The great Devonian controversy
• ISBN: 0-226-73100-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817301903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Science and its conceptual foundations.