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Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute - Princeton Legacy Library James A. Secord
Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute - Princeton Legacy Library
James A. Secord
Secord gives a dazzlingly detailed account of this scientific trench warfare and its social consequences. One ends up with a marvellous feeling for the major taxonomic enterprises in Darwin's younger day: mapping, ordering, conquering 'taming the chaos" of the strata. All of these of course had social and imperial ramifications; and Secord mentions
386 pages
| Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
| Lançado | 14 de julho de 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691605845 |
| Editoras | Princeton University Press |
| Páginas | 386 |
| Dimensões | 152 × 229 × 20 mm · 539 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |