Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms - Stephen Jay Gould
essays on natural history
KORTE INHOUD
'Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms' is the fascinating new collection of Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from National History magazine.
In this collection, Gould consciously and unconventionally formulates a humanistic natural history, a consideration of how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself. With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature's and humanity's diversity and order. In affecting short biographies, he depicts how scholars grapple with problems of science and philosophy as he illuminates the interaction of the outer world with the unique human ability to struggle to understand the whys and wherefores of existence.
PRAISE FOR STEPHEN JAY GOULD:
'No one has written of our illusion about progress in nature with more wit and learning than Stephen Jay Gould.'
(Oliver Sacks)
'Reading Gould is not merely a pleasure but an education and chronicle of the times.' (Roy Porter, Obse...
In this collection, Gould consciously and unconventionally formulates a humanistic natural history, a consideration of how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself. With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature's and humanity's diversity and order. In affecting short biographies, he depicts how scholars grapple with problems of science and philosophy as he illuminates the interaction of the outer world with the unique human ability to struggle to understand the whys and wherefores of existence.
PRAISE FOR STEPHEN JAY GOULD:
'No one has written of our illusion about progress in nature with more wit and learning than Stephen Jay Gould.'
(Oliver Sacks)
'Reading Gould is not merely a pleasure but an education and chronicle of the times.' (Roy Porter, Obse...
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