- Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (27 Mar 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140256725
- ISBN-13: 978-0140256727
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,073,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This seventh collection of Stephen Jay Gould's natural history essays covers subjects ranging from fossils to ship worms, starting with a solar eclipse in New York, and finishing with bus stops in Greece.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
This book is not just for dino lovers, but it is a good read for anyone who has a quirky interest for biology but no appetite for long-winded, lecture-style explaination. Find out how Edgar Allen Poe actually wrote a paper on shells, a scientific paper! Not a poem! Or how the millenium is calculated (or rather, miscalculated). Mr Gould is no doubt, in biology, like Feynman is in Physics. Make science fun to read.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
I had read some of the earlier works written as disassociated unique ideas. "Oranges" by John A. McPhee is just that way (a little history, a little myth, and maybe some economics.) or a continuing string of thought like "The Ascent of Man" by Jacob Bronowski.
What I found was something surprisingly unique. I never realized how coherent reflections could be. Like the columnist, Dave Berry, Stephen Jay Gould would start out with the most innocent of statements and parlay that into an earth shattering reflection. And just as you think he is going way out in left field, he ties it all together. And each chapter is summed up and is tied to one whole reflection on natural history.
You will never look at snails with the same twist again.
I had read some of the earlier works and was planning to read disassociated unique ideas. "Oranges" by John A. McPhee is just that way (a little history, a little myth, and maybe some economics.) or a continuing string of thought like "The Ascent of Man" by Jacob Bronowski.
What I found was something surprisingly unique. I never realized how coherent reflections could be. Like the columnist, Dave Berry, Stephen Jay Gould would start out with the most innocent of statements and parlay that into an earth shattering reflection. And just as you think he is going way out in left field, he ties it all together. And each chapter is summed up and is tied to one whole reflection on natural history.
You will never look at snails with the same twist again.
What I found was something surprisingly unique. I never realized how coherent reflections could be. Like the columnist, Dave Berry, Stephen Jay Gould would start out with the most innocent of statements and parlay that into an earth shattering reflection. And just as you think he is going way out in left field, he ties it all together. And each chapter is summed up and is tied to one whole reflection on natural history.
You will never look at snails with the same twist again.
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