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

Publication Info.	New York : Wiley, [1998]
	©1998

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	Q125 .H5574 1998	Available	---

Description	xv, 240 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-228) and index.
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.
Subject	Science -- History.
	Science.
	History.
	Scientists -- Social aspects -- History.
	Scientists -- Social aspects.
	Scientists.
	Vendetta -- Case studies.
	Vendetta.
Genre/Form	Case studies.
	Case studies.
Subject	Science -- History.
	Vendetta -- Case studies.
	Scientists -- Social aspects -- History.
ISBN	0471169803 cloth alkaline paper