Author: Oldroyd, David R.
Title: The Highlands Controversy. Constructing Geological Knowledge through Fieldwork in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1990). orig.cloth. 24x17cm, ix,438,(8)pp, Includes textual photos,maps,diagrams + 8 color plates.. 8 color plates. Slight corner bump, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: 19th-Century British Geology & its Historiography: Some Themes, Goals & Methods; Early Geological Work in the Northwest Highlands; Geological Work of Murchison & Nicol in the Northwest Highlands: 1850s; The Fieldwork of 1859 & the Aberdeen Meeting of the British Association; The Murchison-Geikie Tour of 1860; Murchison & Geikie contra Nicol: The Establishment of the "Northwest Paradigm"; The Battle Rejoined & the Collapse of the Murchisonian Paradigm; Charles Lapworth: Digressions & Diversions to the Southern Uplands & the Alps; The Professionals Vindicated: The Work of the Surveyors in the Northwest Highlands; The Impact of the Highlands Controversy on the Progress of the Geological Survey: The Wharton Committee's Inquiry; Issues: Methodological, Epistemological, & Social.

Keywords: History of Geology, Victorian Science, Great Britain, Scotland, Highlands, Roderick Murchison, Archibald Geikie, James Nicol,