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Controversy in Victorian Geology : The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute
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 the...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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