Controversy in Victorian Geology [electronic resource] : the Cambrian-Silurian Dispute

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서명/저자사항	Controversy in Victorian Geology [electronic resource]: the Cambrian-Silurian Dispute.
개인저자	Secord, James A.
발행사항	Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
형태사항	1 online resource (385 pages).
총서사항	Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN	9781400854660 1400854660
요약	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 geology's moral appeal (in supporting a divinely-stratified Creation) to a beleaguered elite intent on subduing the lower orders. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand techn.
일반주제명	Geology, Stratigraphic --Cambrian --History. Geology, Stratigraphic --Silurian --History. Geology --Wales --History. Geology --Wales --Geology --Wales --History. Geology, Stratigraphic --Cambrian --History.
분류기호(DDC)	551.723
언어	영어
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