The Great Devonian Controversy
Subtitle: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 15, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780226731025
Subjects: Historical geology; History of science; Palaeontology; Stratigraphy; Stratigraphic Geology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences - Geology; Science / Geology; Devonian; Geology; Geology, Stratigraphic; History
First sentence: In the early nineteenth century, geology was a new, exciting, and fashionable science.1