Reef madness : Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the meaning of coral / David Dobbs.
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)
Publication Details
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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Table of Contents
Magpie
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.
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.