Martin J.S. Rudwick. The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge Among Gentlemanly Specialists. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xxxiii + 494. ISBN 0-226-73101-4. £36.75 [Book Review]

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