
Hedgehog, The Fox And The Magister's Pox
Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world.
In characteristic form, Gould weaves the ideas of some of Western society''s greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to E. O. Wilson, with the uncelebrated ideas of lesser-known yet pivotal intellectuals. He uses their ides to undo an assumption born in the seventeenth...
Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world.
In characteristic form, Gould weaves the ideas of some of Western society''s greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to E. O. Wilson, with the uncelebrated ideas of lesser-known yet pivotal intellectuals. He uses their ides to undo an assumption born in the seventeenth...