Author: Elizabeth Noble Shor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Fossil Feud Between E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh
Author: Elizabeth Noble Shor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Gilded Dinosaur
Author: Mark Jaffe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
It was an age of counterfeit giants, corrupt politicians, and intrepid pioneers. It was a time of scientific ferment. The second half of the 19th century — the so-called Gilded Age — was a time when Americans were exploring the West and building a nation which stretched from coast to coast. It was also when scientists began finding dinosaur fossils across the western half of the nation. Could the answer to the history of life and the proof of evolution be found in these bones? That was the question two young American paleontologists — Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh — set out to answer. But what began as a friendly contest quickly turned into a bitter rivalry that would spill over into American science and politics and rage relentlessly for nearly three decades. Despite their Gilded Age celebrity, the names of Cope and Marsh have disappeared into the recesses of the library and archive. InThe Gilded Dinosaur, Mark Jaffe exhumes from those archives the notes, journals, and letters of these two great opponents to reanimate and retell one of the most fierce rivalries in the history of science.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
It was an age of counterfeit giants, corrupt politicians, and intrepid pioneers. It was a time of scientific ferment. The second half of the 19th century — the so-called Gilded Age — was a time when Americans were exploring the West and building a nation which stretched from coast to coast. It was also when scientists began finding dinosaur fossils across the western half of the nation. Could the answer to the history of life and the proof of evolution be found in these bones? That was the question two young American paleontologists — Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh — set out to answer. But what began as a friendly contest quickly turned into a bitter rivalry that would spill over into American science and politics and rage relentlessly for nearly three decades. Despite their Gilded Age celebrity, the names of Cope and Marsh have disappeared into the recesses of the library and archive. InThe Gilded Dinosaur, Mark Jaffe exhumes from those archives the notes, journals, and letters of these two great opponents to reanimate and retell one of the most fierce rivalries in the history of science.
Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards
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.
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.
The Bonehunters' Revenge
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.
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.
The Fossil Feud
Author: Meish Goldish
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1597162566
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Tells the story of fossil hunters Cope and Marsh, and how their early friendship turned into the most famous fossil feud of all time.
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1597162566
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Tells the story of fossil hunters Cope and Marsh, and how their early friendship turned into the most famous fossil feud of all time.
Neptune’s Ark
Author: David Rains Wallace
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520258143
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Aquatic creatures.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520258143
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Aquatic creatures.
Beasts of Eden
Author: David Rains Wallace
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520237315
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520237315
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher Description
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340821
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340821
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review
The White River Badlands
Author: Cleophas Cisney O'Harra
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Living Fossils
Author: N. Eldredge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461382718
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
The case history approach has an impressive record of success in a variety of disciplines. Collections of case histories, casebooks, are now widely used in all sorts of specialties other than in their familiar appli cation to law and medicine. The case method had its formal beginning at Harvard in 1871 when Christopher Lagdell developed it as a means of teaching. It was so successful in teaching law that it was soon adopted in medical education, and the collection of cases provided the raw material for research on various diseases. Subsequently, the case history approach spread to such varied fields as business, psychology, management, and economics, and there are over 100 books in print that use this approach. The idea for a series of Casehooks in Earth Science grew from my experience in organizing and editing a collection of examples of one variety of sedimentary deposits. The prqject began as an effort to bring some order to a large number of descriptions of these deposits that were so varied in presentation and terminology that even specialists found them difficult to compare and analyze. Thus, from the beginning, it was evident that something more than a simple collection of papers was needed. Accordingly, the nearly fifty contributors worked together with George de Vries Klein and me to establish a standard format for presenting the case histories.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461382718
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
The case history approach has an impressive record of success in a variety of disciplines. Collections of case histories, casebooks, are now widely used in all sorts of specialties other than in their familiar appli cation to law and medicine. The case method had its formal beginning at Harvard in 1871 when Christopher Lagdell developed it as a means of teaching. It was so successful in teaching law that it was soon adopted in medical education, and the collection of cases provided the raw material for research on various diseases. Subsequently, the case history approach spread to such varied fields as business, psychology, management, and economics, and there are over 100 books in print that use this approach. The idea for a series of Casehooks in Earth Science grew from my experience in organizing and editing a collection of examples of one variety of sedimentary deposits. The prqject began as an effort to bring some order to a large number of descriptions of these deposits that were so varied in presentation and terminology that even specialists found them difficult to compare and analyze. Thus, from the beginning, it was evident that something more than a simple collection of papers was needed. Accordingly, the nearly fifty contributors worked together with George de Vries Klein and me to establish a standard format for presenting the case histories.