TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hellman,Hal
TI  - Great feuds in science: ten of the liveliest disputes ever 
SN  - 0471169803 (cloth : alk. paper)
U1  - 509 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - Wiley
KW  - Science
KW  - History
KW  - Scientists
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Vendetta
KW  - Case studies
N1  - 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; Also available as an electronic book via the World Wide Web to institutions affiliated with NetLibrary, Inc
N2  - 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
ER  -