Reef madness : Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the meaning of coral /
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. Thoug...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon,
c2005.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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.