The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology (History of Science Library)

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"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a persons view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwicks book should do for many paleontologists view of the history of their own field." Stephen J. Gould Paleobotany and Palynology "Rudwick has not merely written the first book-length history of palaeontology in the English language; he has written a very intelligent one. . . . His accounts of sources are rounded and organic: he treats the structure of arguments as Cuvier handled fossil bones." Roy S. Porter History of Science