I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History - Softcover

Gould, Stephen Jay

 
9780099749714: I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099749718 ISBN 13: 9780099749714
Verlag: Vintage, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Throughout his work Gould has developed a distinctive and personal form of essay to treat great scientific issues in the context of biography. With I Have Landed , Gould once again applied biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their history. Ranging from the discovery of the new scourge of syphilis by Fracastero in the sixteenth century and Isabelle Duncan's nineteenth-century attempt at reconciling scripture and palaeontology to Freud's weird speculations about human phylogeny and recent creationist attacks on the study of evolution. As always, the essays brilliantly illuminate and elucidate the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that have fuelled the enterprise of science and opened our eyes to a world of unexpected wonders.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He is the author of over twenty books, and received the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the MacArthur Fellowship. He died in May 2002.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099749718
ISBN 13 
9780099749714
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
432
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