Controversy in Victorian Geology : the Cambrian-Silurian Dispute.

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Secord, James A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
From 405 to 570 million years ago
Geology, Stratigraphic > Cambrian > History.
Geology, Stratigraphic > Silurian > History.
Geology > Wales > History.
Stratigraphie > Cambrien > Histoire.
Stratigraphie > Silurien > Histoire.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
SCIENCE > History.
Cambrian Geologic Period.
Geology.
Geology, Stratigraphic.
Silurian Geologic Period.
Wales.
History.
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