The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities
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Title
The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities
Description
The image is the cover of the book The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox. This book is a complex and revealing look at one of the late paleontologist's great passions: the unity of human endeavour. The titular hedgehog and fox refer to the classic dichotomy of persistence opposed to agility of thought, which Gould uses as a backbone in comparing, contrasting, and balancing science and the humanities.
The cover includes a picture of a hedgehog, fox, and magister.
Other text on the cover reads: "In evidence everywhere in this book is Gould as master of the scientific essay: the lucidity, the liveliness, [and] his ability to pull one nifty-quirky-droll example after another out of his bottomless bag of tricks to entertain as he instructs - San Francisco Chronicle"
The cover includes a picture of a hedgehog, fox, and magister.
Other text on the cover reads: "In evidence everywhere in this book is Gould as master of the scientific essay: the lucidity, the liveliness, [and] his ability to pull one nifty-quirky-droll example after another out of his bottomless bag of tricks to entertain as he instructs - San Francisco Chronicle"
list of authors
Stephen Jay Gould - was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He published over twenty books
Publisher
Harmony - 2003
Subject
Fayne
Source
From AMM's personal archive
