Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute - Princeton Legacy Library - James A. Secord - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691605845 - July 14, 2014
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Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute - Princeton Legacy Library

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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 these of course had social and imperial ramifications; and Secord mentions


386 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 14, 2014
ISBN13 9780691605845
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 386
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 20 mm   ·   539 g
Language English  

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