Great Feuds in Science Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever

Name: Great Feuds in Science Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
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ISBN: 9780471350668

ISBN-10: 0471350664

ISBN-13: 9780471350668

Edition: 1998

Authors: Hal Hellman

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With Great Feuds in Science, Hal Hellman chronicles ten of the hottest historical disputes over new discoveries and theories, in which ideas as fundamental as the theory of evolution were strongly and realistically challenged.

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited
Publication date: 9/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.15" wide x 9.23" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Urban VIII versus Galileo: An Unequal Contest



Wallis versus Hobbes: Squaring the Circle



Newton versus Leibniz: A Clash of Titans



Voltaire versus Needham: The Generation Controversy



Darwin's Bulldog versus Soapy Sam: Evolution Wars



Lord Kelvin versus Geologists and Biologists: The Age of the Earth



Cope versus Marsh: The Fossil Feud



Wegener versus Everybody: Continental Drift



Johanson versus the Leakeys: The Missing Link



Derek Freeman versus Margaret Mead: Nature versus Nurture


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index