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Re: history of science



Also 1999 book by H. Helman "Great Feuds in Science"
ISBN 0471350664 ($14 paperback at Amazon.com)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index