书籍介绍
The many fans who have come to expect a uniquely broad range of subject and elegant, discerning prose from Stephen Jay Gould will be delighted with this new collection, which the author considers by far his best. These essays record a sixty-year battle against creationism, the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the triumph of Voyager's fly-by of Neptune, and other wonders of the world. Drawings.
用户评论
这本书帮助我理解了这个领域的两个基本lineages...Franciscan这个系列我更愿意看做是poetic writing了..但从Aristotle--Galileo--Huxley--Medawar竟然是连贯的。