"e;Arguably the best work to date in the history of geology."e;-David R. Oldroyd, Science"e;After a superficial first glance, most readers of good will and broad knowledge might dismiss [this book] as being too much about too little. They would be making one of the biggest mistakes in their intellectual lives. . . . [It] could become one of our century's key documents in understanding science and its history."e;-Stephen Jay Gould, New York Review of Books"e;Surely one of the most important studies in the history of science of recent years, and arguably the best work to date in the history of geology."e;-David R. Oldroyd, Science