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Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute
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Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute

James A. Secord
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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

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Date
28 June 2016
Pages
386
ISBN
9780691634746

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

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Date
28 June 2016
Pages
386
ISBN
9780691634746

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