TY  - BOOK
AU  - Secord,James A.
TI  - Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute 
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9780691605845
AV  - QE656 .S4 2014 
U1  - 551.7/23551.723 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Geology
KW  - History
KW  - Wales
KW  - Geology, Stratigraphic
KW  - Cambrian
KW  - Silurian
KW  - SCIENCE / History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Manuscript Sources --; Introduction --; CHAPTER ONE. Controversy and Classification --; CHAPTER TWO. Collaboration and Contrasts --; CHAPTER THREE. Cambria and Siluria Established --; CHAPTER FOUR. The Spread of Siluria --; CHAPTER FIVE. Restructuring Wales --; CHAPTER SIX. Revivals of the Cambrian --; CHAPTER SEVEN. Professional Geology and the Quest for Priority --; CHAPTER EIGHT. The Battle of May Hill --; CHAPTER NINE. The Creation of an Alternative --; Conclusion --; Abbreviations --; Bibliography --; Index --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Secord gives a dazzlingly detailed account of this scientific trench warfare and its social consequences. One ends up with a marvellous feeling for the major taxonomic enterprises in Darwin's younger day: mapping, ordering, conquering 'taming the chaos" of the strata. All of these of course had social and imperial ramifications; and Secord mentions geology's moral appeal (in supporting a divinely-stratified Creation) to a beleaguered elite intent on subduing the lower orders.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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