Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung An introduction to the central concepts of modern geology as a social and intellectual account of a major revolution in science and scientific change. It uses the story of modern geology to introduce the question of the nature of scientific change and its philosophical analaysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Zusammenfassung
An introduction to the central concepts of modern geology as a social and intellectual account of a major revolution in science and scientific change. It uses the story of modern geology to introduce the question of the nature of scientific change and its philosophical analaysis.

Inhalt
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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