The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox: Mending and Minding the - Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Jay Gould Klappentext Stephen Jay Gould was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and professor of geology at Harvard and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the university's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He died in May 2002. A fitting tribute to his career, as it combines, in both style and substance, the different themes of his life's work. Blending genuine literary talents with impeccable scientific credentials, Gould crafts an elegant entreaty for scientists and scholars to spend less time complaining about each other and more time combining their considerable resources. We need both the fox and the hedgehog in any intellectual menagerie--the persistent pluralist.--Alan C. Hutchinson "Globe and Mail " Zusammenfassung Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world. In characteristic form, Gould weaves the ideas of some of Western society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to E.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stephen J Gold, Stephen J. Gould, Stephen Jay Gould
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.03.2004
• EAN: 9780099440826
• ISBN: 978-0-09-944082-6
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; SCIENCE / General, History of Science