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000291734 1001_ $$aDobbs, David,$$d1958-
000291734 24510 $$aReef madness :$$bCharles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the meaning of coral /$$cDavid Dobbs.
000291734 250__ $$a1st ed.
000291734 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPantheon,$$cc2005.
000291734 300__ $$ax, 306 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm.
000291734 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index.
000291734 5050_ $$aMagpie -- Neuchâtel -- Freiburg -- Cambridge -- Fixity -- Transmutation -- Selection -- A still greater sorrow -- The pleasure of gambling -- To light: Murray's reefs -- A question of science -- Accrual -- "A conspiracy of silence" -- To sea -- The last archipelago -- A connected account -- Eniwetok.
000291734 520__ $$aThis book examines, from a number of perspectives, a period of change in the nature of scientific thought, as represented in the 19th century debate over the formation of coral atolls and reefs between Charles Darwin and Alexander Agassiz, the son of Darwin's great opponent Louis Agassiz. Though the son opposed his father in siding with Darwin's theory of evolution, he made it his life's work to disprove Darwin's theory on coral; while ultimately shown to be incorrect, Agassiz's work laid the foundations of modern oceanography.
000291734 60010 $$aAgassiz, Alexander,$$d1835-1910.
000291734 650_0 $$aCoral reefs and islands.
000291734 650_0 $$aScience$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000291734 650_0 $$aNatural history$$xPhilosophy.
000291734 85200 $$bgen$$hQE565$$i.D63$$i2005
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