Book ID: CBB000078202

Great feuds in science: Ten of the liveliest disputes ever (1998)

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Hellman, Hal (Author)


Wiley


Publication Date: 1998
Physical Details: xv + 240 pp.; notes; bibl.; index

Description Contents: 1. Urban VIII versus Galileo: An unequal contest. 2. Wallis versus Hobbes: Squaring the circle. 3. Newton versus Leibniz: A clash of titans. 4. Voltaire versus Needham: The generation controversy. 5. Darwin's bulldog versus Soapy Sam: Evolution wars. 6. Lord Kelvin versus geologists and biologists: The age of the earth. 7. Cope versus Marsh: The fossil feud. 8. Wegener versus everybody: Continental drift. 9. Johanson versus the Leakeys: The missing link. 10. Derek Freeman versus Margaret Mead: Nature versus nurture.


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Review Isenhour, T.L. (1999) Review of "Great feuds in science: Ten of the liveliest disputes ever". American Scientist (p. 186). unapi

Review Marcum, J. A. (2001) Review of "Great feuds in science: Ten of the liveliest disputes ever". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 143). unapi

Review Gratzer, W. (1998) Review of "Great feuds in science: Ten of the liveliest disputes ever". Nature (pp. 843-44). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ziman, John M.
Verhoog, Henk
Starostin, Boris A.
St. Clair, Charles S.
Schmidt-Biggemann, Wilhelm
Rothbart, Daniel
Concepts
Science
Methods of communication; media
Personality of the scientist
Philosophical historiography
Sociology of knowledge
Time Periods
17th century
19th century
Renaissance
20th century
Places
France
Italy
British Isles
Institutions
Commission d' Exploration Scientifique d' Algérie
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