Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute by James a. Secord

Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute

James a. Secord

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nonfiction history science
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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 ...

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