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The earth occupies the center, symbolized by the city of Florence, with Dante in the middle and Brunelleschi’s magnificent dome for the cathedral to his left (an anachronism, to be sure, for Dante died in 1321 and Brunelleschi raised... xml. THE TALLEST TALE.
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998) is the eighth volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "The View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27 years.
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Nov 29, 2011 · Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms. Essays on Natural History. Stephen Jay Gould. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674063365. Cite this. Share this. Overview. Contents. About this book. With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.
Sep 29, 1998 · Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history).
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- Stephen Jay Gould
Oct 7, 1998 · Opening with a masterful appreciation of da Vinci’s remarkable observations about erosion and fossilized clams—and their lesser-known context of his entirely medieval world-view—Gould displays a deep appreciation not only for the natural world but also for the mind’s attempts to understand it, even at the risk of error.
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from "Natural History magazine...
In his essay collection ''Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms,'' he wields his formidable intellect, combined with an ''insatiably greedy and infinitely curious'' nature, to...
