Reef madness : Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the meaning of coral / David Dobbs.
Dobbs, David, 1958-
2005
QE565 .D63 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Reef madness : Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the meaning of coral / David Dobbs.
Author Dobbs, David, 1958-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 0375421610 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Pantheon, c2005.
Language English
Description x, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number QE565 .D63 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 551.42/4
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index.
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