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Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth

Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth

Naomi Oreskes - Science - 2001 - 424 pages
Collects eighteen essays on the development of the theory of plate tectonics, covering key concepts, terminology, and the contributions of the scientists who helped develop the ...
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues ...

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues ...

Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway - Science - 2010 - 368 pages
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists ...
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Drifting Continents & Colliding Paradigms: Perspectives on the Geoscience ...

Drifting Continents & Colliding Paradigms: Perspectives on the Geoscience ...

John A. Stewart - Science - 1990 - 285 pages
"The book provides an excellent historical summary of the debates over continental drift theory in this century." —Contemporary Sociology "This is a useful discussion of the ...
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Continents in Motion: The New Earth Debate

Continents in Motion: The New Earth Debate

Walter Sullivan - Science - 1991 - 430 pages
"A history of discovery as revealing as the ways of science." The New York Times "Offers the purest intellectual excitement, the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake ...
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A revolution in the earth sciences: from continental drift to plate tectonics
Our wandering continents: an hypothesis of continental drifting
The Continental Drift Controversy: Wegener and the Early Debate

The Continental Drift Controversy: Wegener and the Early Debate

Science - 2012 - 632 pages
The definitive account of the early debate over Wegener's theory of continental drift, based on extensive interviews and archival material.
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Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories

Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories

Science - 1988 - 313 pages
This innovative book uses the story of how a modern science achieved its present shape and focus to introduce the question of the nature of scientific change and its ...
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Continental drift: the evolution of a concept
Alfred Wegener: Creator of the Continental Drift Theory

Alfred Wegener: Creator of the Continental Drift Theory

Lisa Yount - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2009 - 160 pages
A biography of the man who created the theory of continental drift.
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