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The story of the rivalry between Gideon Mantell and Richard Owen, over the interpretation of fossil dinosaur bones.
The early 1800s, and Mary Anning digs up dinosaur bones. The story goes on from there, focussing mainly on Dr Gideon Mantell and Richard Owen and their rivalry to get their interprations and scientific ideas recognised. Readable, but yet another story of the establishment not being fair to "outsiders" (as in so many other stories of science).
Currently only available from the second hand sellers on Amazon.
Penny is an ex-engineer, ex-science teacher and ex-publisher, and is now a full-time freelance writer of science textbooks for schools. Her main interests are the earth sciences and planetary science
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