Great feuds in science : ten of the liveliest disputes ever /

Great feuds in science : ten of the liveliest disputes ever / Hal Hellman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hellman, Hal, 1927-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Wiley, ©1998.
Subjects:	Science > History. Scientists > Social aspects > History. Vendetta > Case studies.

Table of Contents:

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.