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The Hedgehog@@ the Fox and the Magister's Pox : Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities - Softcover
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Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer on the world. In characteristic form, Gould weaves the ideas of some of Wester society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to EO Wilson, with uncelebrated ideas of lesser-known yet pivotal intellectuals. He uses their ideas to undo an assumption born in the seventeenth century and continuing to this day, that science and humanities stand in opposition. Gould uses the metaphor of the hedgehog - who goes after one thing at a measured pace, systematically investigating all; the fox - skilled at many things, intuitive and fast; and the magister's pox - a censure form the Catholic Church involved in Galileo's downfall; a metaphor which illustrates the different ways of responding to knowledge - in a scientific, humanistic or fearful way. He argues that in fact each would benefit by borrowing from each other.
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Stephen Jay Gould was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and professor of geology at Harvard and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the university's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He died in May 2002.
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"Pairs high brilliance with deep modesty." * New Humanist * "Reading Gould is not merely a pleasure but an education and a chronicle of the times" * Observer * "Not only one of the finest scientific minds of the later twentieth century, but also one of its greatest polymaths" * The Times * "Gould strives to outline a more peaceful, mutually supportive view of the realtionship between the sciences and the humanities" * Nature * "One of the best essayists in the business. He uses his wide background knowledge...as a bridge to entice non-scientists into sharing the excitement of scientific discovery and the curious, convoluted path of new ideas through history" * Scotsman *
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- PublisherVintage Books USA
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0099440822
- ISBN 13 9780099440826
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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