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Gould, Stephen Jay; Purcell, Rosamond Wolff

 
9780609805862: Crossing over: Where Art and Science Meet
Softcover
ISBN 10: 060980586X ISBN 13: 9780609805862
Verlag: Crown Publications, 2000

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The collaborators of Finders, Keepers and Illuminations present photographed essays that consider such topics as the terrestrial names of oceanic creatures, the relativity of scale as seen with bird eggs, and humanity's genetic ape cousin. Original. 20,000 first printing.

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Stephen Jay Gould was one of the most influential evolutionary biologists and most acclaimed science essayists of the 20th century. He died in May 2002. He was the author of numerous books, including <b>The Lying Stones of Marrakech</b> and <b>Questioning the Millennium</b>. <br><br>ROSAMOND WOLFF PURCELL is a photographer whose acclaimed work includes <b>Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters</b>, a Village Voice book of the year, and the award-winning <b>Swift as a Shadow</b>. She lives in Boston.

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ng Over</b>, the latest of three collaborations between scholar Stephen Jay Gould and artist Rosamond Wolff Purcell, brings together thought-provoking essays and uncannily beautiful photographs to disprove the popular notion that art and science exist in an antagonistic relationship. The essays and photographs collected here present art and science in conversation, rather than in opposition. As Gould writes in his preface, although the two disciplines may usually communicate in different dialects, when juxtaposed they strikingly reflect upon and enhance one another. Working together, Purcell's photographs and Gould's scientific musings speak to us about ourselves and our world in a hybrid language richer than either could command on its own. <br><br>In an essay on individuality, for instance, Gould looks through the lens of evolutionary theory to address the controversial issue of cloning and the often misguided fears it evokes. As a society that exalts the concept of the individual, Gould ar

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Verlag
Crown Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
060980586X
ISBN 13 
9780609805862
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
159
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