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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998) is the eighth volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "The View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27 years.
I can easily understand why, for most naturalists, the highest form of beauty, inspiration, and moral value might be imputed to increasingly rare patches of true wilderness—that is, to parcels of nature devoid of any human presence, either in current person or by previous incursion.
29 nov. 2011 · Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms. Essays on Natural History. Stephen Jay Gould. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674063365. Cite this. Share this. Overview. Contents. About this book. With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.
The opening essay on Leonardo da Vinci provides a picture of a thinker challenged by mysterious evidence, expertly addressed. Da Vinci displays more humanity here than revealed by viewing his works. Fossil seashells at mountain peaks were puzzled over for centuries.
1 janv. 1999 · Critiques, citations, extraits de Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms de Stephen Jay Gould. `No one has written of our illusions about progress in nature with mor...
11 déc. 2020 · Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history).
422 pages. Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from "Natural History...
