The hedgehog, the fox, and the magister's pox : mending the gap between science and the humanities /...
The hedgehog, the fox, and the magister's pox : mending the gap between science and the humanities /...
The hedgehog, the fox, and the magister's pox : mending the gap between science and the humanities / Stephen Jay Gould.
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New York : Harmony Books, c2003.
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N303.483/ 224
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Preface: Introducing the Protagonists -- I. The Rite and Rights of a Separating Spring -- 1. Newton's Light -- 2. Scientific "World-Making" and Critical Braking -- 3. So Noble an Hecatombe: The Weight of Humanism -- 4. The Mandate of Magister Medice: The Threat of Suppression -- II. From Paradoxical...
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Publisher
New York : Harmony Books, c2003.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2003.
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Summary
"In his final book and his first full-length original title since Full House in 1996, the eminent paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against each other for far too long."-...
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The hedgehog, the fox, and the magister's pox : mending the gap between science and the humanities / Stephen Jay Gould.
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Includes index.
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c2003.
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N303.483/ 224
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ISBN
0609601407 (hardcover)
9780609601402 (hardcover)
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303.483
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991016358239702626
