Great feuds in science : ten of the liveliest disputes ever / Hal Hellman.
Pubblicazione:
New York : J. Wiley & sons, c1998.
Descrizione fisica:
XV, 240 ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Urban VIII versus Galileo, an unequal contest 2. Wallis versus Hobbes, squaring the circle 3. Newton versus Leibniz, a clash of titans 4. Voltaire versus Needham, the generation controversy 5. Darwin's bulldog versus Soapy Sam, evolution wars 6. Lord Kelvin versus geologists and biologists, the age of the Earth 7. Cope versus Marsh, the fossil feud 8. Wegener versus everybody, continental drift 9. Johanson versus the leakeys, the missing link 10. Derek Freeman versus Margaret Mead. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index
Note galileane:
Per Galilei cfr. ch.1. Urban VIII versus Galileo : an unequal contest
