The Great Devonian Controversy
The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists
Seiten
1988
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-73102-5 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-73102-5 (ISBN)
"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
"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
Martin J. S. Rudwick is professor of the history of science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Meaning of Fossils, also available from the University of Chicago Press.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.6.1988 |
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Reihe/Serie | Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 18 x 25 mm |
Gewicht | 992 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-226-73102-2 / 0226731022 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-73102-5 / 9780226731025 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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