Libro I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History De Stephen Jay Gould

portada I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Vintage

Autor

Stephen Jay Gould

Categoría

Literatura

Año

2003

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

432

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780099749714

I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History

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Reseña del libro "I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History"

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.