Great feuds in science, ten of the liveliest disputes ever
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Great feuds in science, ten of the liveliest disputes ever
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eng
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non fiction
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Great feuds in science
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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ten of the liveliest disputes ever
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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
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