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Author: Thom Holmes Publisher: Julian Messner ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
Relates the life stories of two nineteenth-century American dinosaur paleontologists and gives details of the bitter feud that existed between them.
Author: Thom Holmes Publisher: Julian Messner ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
Relates the life stories of two nineteenth-century American dinosaur paleontologists and gives details of the bitter feud that existed between them.
Author: David Rains Wallace Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618082407 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
Wallace explores in exciting detail the rivalry between the paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Onthniel Charles Marsh--19th-century America's major scientific feud. Cope and Marsh independently discovered hundreds of dinosaur fossils on the high plains when the Indian wars were in full swing.
Author: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 9780375813498 Category : Fossils Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Edward Drinker Cope was a charming man with a passion for old bones. Othniel Marsh was a stickler for procedure when he studied his fossil finds. They started as friends, sharing ideas and information, but after Marsh tried to poach Cope's digging site, they became bitter enemies. Their decades-long feud fueled their desire to dig up more bones, to discover new species, and to find ever bigger and more unusual dinosaurs. Through their competition, the two men laid a far-reaching foundation for the brand-new field of palentology. A fascinating story told with an engaging narrative technique, and well complemented by period photographs and drawings, a map, a time line, and an author's note.
Author: Jim Ottaviani Publisher: G.T. Labs ISBN: 9780966010664 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 174
Book Description
Contains a graphic novel that presents a fictionalized historical tale of two late-nineteenth century scientists who fight over the discovery of dinosaur bones.
Author: Hal Hellman Publisher: Turner Publishing Company ISBN: 0470311762 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 303
Book Description
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
Author: Rob Shone Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 9781404295919 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 58
Book Description
Presents a brief introduction to fossils and how they are gathered, as well as three narratives on important people and events in the history of paleontology in graphic novel format.
Author: Peter J. Bowler Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226069210 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 556
Book Description
As Bowler tracks major scientific debates over the emergence of the vertebrates, the origins of the main types of living animals, and the rise and extinction of groups such as the dinosaurs, his richly detailed accounts bring to light complex interactions among specialists in various fields of biology.
Author: Caroline Winterer Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691199671 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselves During the nineteenth century, Americans were shocked to learn that the land beneath their feet had once been stalked by terrifying beasts. T. rex and Brontosaurus ruled the continent. North America was home to saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths, great herds of camels and hippos, and sultry tropical forests now fossilized into massive coal seams. How the New World Became Old tells the extraordinary story of how Americans discovered that the New World was not just old—it was a place rooted in deep time. In this panoramic book, Caroline Winterer traces the history of an idea that today lies at the heart of the nation’s identity as a place of primordial natural beauty. Europeans called America the New World, and literal readings of the Bible suggested that Earth was only six thousand years old. Winterer takes readers from glacier-capped peaks in Yosemite to Alabama slave plantations and canal works in upstate New York, describing how naturalists, explorers, engineers, and ordinary Americans unearthed a past they never suspected, a history more ancient than anyone ever could have imagined. Drawing on archival evidence ranging from unpublished field notes and letters to early stratigraphic diagrams, How the New World Became Old reveals how the deep time revolution ushered in profound changes in science, literature, art, and religion, and how Americans came to realize that the New World might in fact be the oldest world of all.
Author: Thom Holmes
Author: Thom Holmes
Author: Elizabeth Noble Shor
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Author: David Rains Wallace
Author: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Author: Jim Ottaviani
Author: Hal Hellman
Author: Rob Shone
Author: Peter J. Bowler
Author: Caroline Winterer