Great feuds in science : ten of the liveliest disputes ever / Hal Hellman
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TextPublication details: New York : Wiley, c1998Description: xv, 240 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0471169803 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0471350664
- 9780471169802 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780471350668
- 509
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-228) and index
Urban VIII versus Galileo: an unequal contest -- Wallis versus Hobbes: squaring the circle -- Newton versus Leibniz: a clash of titans -- Voltaire versus Needham: the generation controversy -- Darwin's bulldog versus Soapy Sam: evolution wars -- Lord Kelvin versus geologists and biologists: the age of the Earth -- Cope versus Marsh: the fossil feud -- Wegener versus everybody: continental drift -- Johanson versus the Leakeys: the missing link -- Derek Freeman versus Margaret Mead: nature versus nurture
An accomplished science writer narrates the dramatic stories of science's ten greatest controversies, sometimes lasting centuries and the discoveries they inspired, and shows how such clashes of ideas and personalities propel science forward
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