TY  - BOOK
N2  - This book examines, from a number of perspectives, a period of change in the nature of scientific thought, as represented in the 19th century debate over the formation of coral atolls and reefs between Charles Darwin and Alexander Agassiz, the son of Darwin's great opponent Louis Agassiz. Though the son opposed his father in siding with Darwin's theory of evolution, he made it his life's work to disprove Darwin's theory on coral; while ultimately shown to be incorrect, Agassiz's work laid the foundations of modern oceanography.
AB  - This book examines, from a number of perspectives, a period of change in the nature of scientific thought, as represented in the 19th century debate over the formation of coral atolls and reefs between Charles Darwin and Alexander Agassiz, the son of Darwin's great opponent Louis Agassiz. Though the son opposed his father in siding with Darwin's theory of evolution, he made it his life's work to disprove Darwin's theory on coral; while ultimately shown to be incorrect, Agassiz's work laid the foundations of modern oceanography.
T1  - Reef madness :Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the meaning of coral /
DA  - c2005.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Dobbs, David,
ET  - 1st ed.
CN  - QE565
CN  - QE565
PB  - Pantheon,
PP  - New York :
PY  - c2005.
ID  - 291734
KW  - Coral reefs and islands.
KW  - Science
KW  - Natural history
SN  - 0375421610 (alk. paper)
TI  - Reef madness :Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the meaning of coral /
ER  -