The Great Devonian Controversy: Shaping of Scientific Knowledge Among Gentlemanly Specialists (Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S.) - Hardcover

Rudwick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226731014 ISBN 13: 9780226731018

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1985

Synopsis

"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"

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Acclaimed everywhere as a masterpiece in the history of science, The Great Devonian Controversy recreates a scientific debate of the 1830s and 1840s about the dating of certain puzzling rock strata and fossils.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0226731014
• ISBN 13: 9780226731018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 528