This innovative book uses the story of how a modern science achieved its present shape and focus to examine the nature of scientific change and its philosophical and social analysis.
This innovative book uses the story of how a modern science achieved its present shape and focus to examine the nature of scientific change and its philosophical and social analysis.
Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Solid as a rock?: geology before Wegener 3. Wegener and his theory: antecedents and arguments 4. Debate around the earth 5. Specialties, localism and problem-solving 6. Interregum: competition and stalemate 7. Palaeomagnetism, drift and polar wandering 8. Patterns and puzzles from the sea 9. Shifting theories 10. The 'revolution' proclaimed 11. Theories of scientific change and the modern revolution in geology Bibliography Index.
Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Solid as a rock?: geology before Wegener 3. Wegener and his theory: antecedents and arguments 4. Debate around the earth 5. Specialties, localism and problem-solving 6. Interregum: competition and stalemate 7. Palaeomagnetism, drift and polar wandering 8. Patterns and puzzles from the sea 9. Shifting theories 10. The 'revolution' proclaimed 11. Theories of scientific change and the modern revolution in geology Bibliography Index.
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