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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; New edition edition (15 Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0471350664
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471350668
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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In his book, Hellman "reveals just how human scientists can be."––San Diego Union–Tribune

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The dramatic stories of ten historic feuds: How they altered the course of discovery–and shaped the modern world
Hall Hellman tells the lively stories of ten of the most outrageous and intriguing disputes from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Bringing the cataclysmic clash of ideas and personalities to colorful life, Hellman explores both the science and the spirit of the times. Along the way, he reveals that scientific feuds are fueled not only by the purest of intellectual disagreements, but also by intransigence, ambition, jealousy, politics, faith, and the irresistible human urge to be right.
Unusual insight into the development of science . . . I was excited by this book and enthusiastically recommend it to general as well as scientific audiences. –American Scientist
Hellman has assembled a series of entertaining tales. . . . many fine examples of heady invective without parallel in our time. –Nature
An entertaining and informative account of the unusual personalities and sometimes bitter rivalries of some of the world′s greatest scientific minds. –Publishers Weekly
A fascinating new book which details some of the most famous disputes of the ages.–Courier Mail
Dry science history turns into entertaining reading without sacrificing historical accuracy. –The Christchurch Press
Great Feuds in Science is wonderful history, as the reader learns how scientists had to fight with religious leaders and other scientists to get their work recognized, accepted, and even get the credit for it! –Bookviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great book to read on vacation., 12 April 1999
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This review is from: Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever (Wiley Popular Science) (Hardcover)
This is simply a marvelous book. Period. I would enthusiastically recommend it to anyone who is looking for a stimulating, yet fairly easy read over a vacation, holiday, plane ride, whatever. Hellman's prose drew me in --and keep me in--. I normally have trouble finishing books. Not this one. This is one of those books that leaves you feeling better educated upon completion.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Light but entertaining science reading, 8 Jan 1999
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This review is from: Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever (Wiley Popular Science) (Hardcover)
This is good anecdotal collection of scientific diputes which could have been written as a series in a popular science magazine. Its emphasis is on the personalities involved in scientific disputes over the years, and a general description of the nature of the debate. The book makes little attempt to delve into the psychology of the scientific mind. Nor does it try to pin to together a consistent philosophical basis underlying scientific progress, paradigms and debates. You are left with a series of vignettes of roughly 20 pages a piece, well written and entertaining, which offer little penetration and cohesion into the 'nature' of scientific conflict. As a quick survey of scientific progress and perhaps as a guide to more in depth reading it is a good work, especially for the young reader
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hellman's "Great Feuds ..." is great reading!, 3 Aug 1998
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I have to disagree strongly with one of the customer reviews of Hal Hellman's "Great Feuds in Science." "Iceage" complains that "... the book dissapoints (sic)... mainly because of its lack of first person perspeective. I was looking for more feeling, more virulent attacking by two historical giants ..." Apparently the reviewer was expecting people like Newton and Leibniz or Thomas Hobbes and John Wallis to stand head to head yelling four-letter words at each other. We should be fair: these feuds are scientific battles, not barroom brawls. As for his complaint that he "was hoping for more of a graphic and detailed picture of the opposition ..." I found Hellman's examples apt and intriguing. One example: John Wallis, mathematician and clergyman, writes to a colleague about Hobbes: "... nor should we be deterred ... by his arrogance which we know will vomit poisonous filth against us." In Chapter 10, Hellman r! elates that Derek Freeman, Australian anthropologist, wrote of that American icon, Maargaret Mead, that many of her assertions about Samoa, made decades earlier, are " ... fundamentally in error and some are preposterously false." Also, "There isn't another example of such wholesale self-deception in the history of the behavioral sciences." These aren't four-letter words, but they are explosive. Hellman has given us that good feel for who these people were and what they meant to society at the time. This book could bring science to life for the young and those of us who are more experienced. Iceage missed the boat but your readers should jump on board.
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I highly recommend Hal Hellman's book, Great Feuds in Science. By his interesting, lucid and informative style, he clearly brought together the important issues that have made... Read more
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Hellman presents us with a well written and carefully researched series of entertaining profiles about some notable debates in science (both old and current). Read more
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