Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories

Name: Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories
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ISBN: 9780521311052

ISBN-10: 0521311055

ISBN-13: 9780521311052

Edition: 1988

Authors: H. E. Le Grand

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This innovative book uses the story of how a modern science achieved its present shape and focus to introduce the question of the nature of scientific change and its philosophical analysis. The "modern revolution in geology" of the 1960s and 1970s saw the triumph of the global theory of plate tectonics, and decisive turning point in fifty years' controversy and competition first sparked in 1912 by Wegener's proposal of continenta drift. Here, Professor Le Grand interweaves a history of this episode of scientific change with reflective discussions of its historical, philosophical, and social circumstances, and of the development of science more generally. The approach of the book is…

Book details

List price: $83.99
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/15/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Introduction



Solid as a rock? Geology before Wegener



Wegener and his theory: antecedents and arguments



Debate around the earth



Specialties, localism and problem-solving



Interregnum: competion and stalemate



Palacomagnetism, Drift and polar wandering



Patterns and puzzles from the sea



Shifting theories



The 'revolution' proclaimed



Theories of scientific change and the modern revolution in geology


Bibliography


Index