Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms Essays on Natural History
- List Price: $15.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 11/01/1999
Description:
This unique volume of twenty-one recent essays published in Natural History magazine is the first essay collection that consciously formulates a humanistic natural history, a history of how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself. Gould examines the puzzles great and small that build the order of nature and studies the interaction of the outside world with the unique human ability to struggle to understand -- as a conscious, questioning agent -- the whys and wherefores...and merges this knowledge with the meaning of our own existence.
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Gould's writing is passionate and reflects the intelligence, humor, and insight that Gould is known for. His subjects range from affecting mini biographies of men grappling with the great problems of science end philosophy, to essays of wonder at natures and humanitys diversity, at the sensitive and intelligent conjunction of art and nature.
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