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100 1  Dobbs, David,|d1958-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
       /n95017798 
245 10 Reef madness :|bCharles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the
       meaning of coral /|cDavid Dobbs. 
250    1st ed. 
264  1 New York :|bPantheon,|c[2005] 
264  4 |c©2005 
300    x, 306 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and 
       index. 
505 0  Magpie -- Neuchâtel -- Freiburg -- Cambridge -- Fixity -- 
       Transmutation -- Selection -- A still greater sorrow -- 
       The pleasure of gambling -- To light: Murray's reefs -- A 
       question of science -- Accrual -- "A conspiracy of 
       silence" -- To sea -- The last archipelago -- A connected 
       account -- Eniwetok. 
520    This book examines, from a number of perspectives, a 
       period of change in the nature of scientific thought, as 
       represented in the 19th century debate over the formation 
       of coral atolls and reefs between Charles Darwin and 
       Alexander Agassiz, the son of Darwin's great opponent 
       Louis Agassiz. Though the son opposed his father in siding
       with Darwin's theory of evolution, he made it his life's 
       work to disprove Darwin's theory on coral; while 
       ultimately shown to be incorrect, Agassiz's work laid the 
       foundations of modern oceanography. 
600 10 Agassiz, Alexander,|d1835-1910.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n87149270 
600 17 Agassiz, Alexander,|d1835-1910.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/211691 
648  7 19th century|2fast 
650  0 Coral reefs and islands.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh85032525 
650  0 Science|xHistory|y19th century.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh2008111329 
650  0 Natural history|xPhilosophy.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh2010103470 
650  7 Coral reefs and islands.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/878858 
650  7 Science.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1108176 
650  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 
650  7 Natural history|xPhilosophy.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/1034300 
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