Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-228) and index.
Contents
Urban VIII versus Galileo : an unequal contest -- Wallis versus Hobbes : squaring the circle -- Newton versus Leibniz : a clash of titans -- Voltaire versus Needham : the generation controversy -- Darwin's bulldog versus Soapy Sam : evolution wars -- Lord Kelvin versus geologists and biologists : the age of the Earth -- Cope versus Marsh : the fossil feud -- Wegener versus everybody : continental drift -- Johanson versus the Leakeys : the missing link -- Derek Freeman versus Margaret Mead : nature versus nurture.
