- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press (1 Aug 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226626342
- ISBN-13: 978-0226626345
- Product Dimensions: 2.5 x 1.8 x 0.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,193,638 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The Highlands Controversy "is a rich and perceptive account of the third and last major dispute in nineteenth-century geology stemming from the work of Sir Roderick Murchison. The earlier Devonian and Cambrian-Silurian controversies centered on whether the strata of Devon and Wales should be classified by lithological or paleontological criteria, but the Highlands dispute arose from the difficulties the Scottish Highlands presented to geologists who were just learning to decipher the very complex processes of mountain building and metamorphism. David Oldroyd follows this controversy into the last years of the nineteenth century, as geology was transformed by increasing professionalization and by the development of new field and laboratory techniques. In telling this story, Oldroyd's aim is to analyze how scientific knowledge is constructed within a competitive scientific community--how theory, empirical findings, and social factors interact in the formation of knowledge.
Oldroyd uses archival material and his own extensive reconstruction of the nineteenth-century fieldwork in a case study showing how detailed maps and sections made it possible to understand the exceptionally complex geological structure of the Highlands
An invaluable addition to the history of geology, "The Highlands Controversy" also makes important contributions to our understanding of the social and conceptual processes of scientific work, especially in times of heated dispute.
Oldroyd uses archival material and his own extensive reconstruction of the nineteenth-century fieldwork in a case study showing how detailed maps and sections made it possible to understand the exceptionally complex geological structure of the Highlands
An invaluable addition to the history of geology, "The Highlands Controversy" also makes important contributions to our understanding of the social and conceptual processes of scientific work, especially in times of heated dispute.
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Geology is a branch of science that has been accorded relatively little attention by historians, yet it is an area of considerable interest, not only to the historian of science, but to the geologist and the general reader. Read the first page
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Geology is a branch of science that has been accorded relatively little attention by historians, yet it is an area of considerable interest, not only to the historian of science, but to the geologist and the general reader. Read the first page
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