HIDDEN HISTORIES OF SCIENCE: Oliver Sacks ~ Jonathan Miller ~ Stephen Jay Gould ~ Daniel J. Kevles ~ R.C. Lewontin

Silvers, Robert B. (Edited By)

ISBN 10: 094032203X / ISBN 13: 9780940322035

Edité par NY. 1995. NYREV / A New York Review Book, 1995

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golden yellow 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (NAP). iii+193p. b&w illustrations. notes on contributors. notes on the illustrations. history of science. biology. psychology. ~ In this collection of original essays, five world~renowned writers explore forgotten and neglected aspects of the history of science. Jonathan Miller, Oliver Sacks, and Daniel Kevles show how some scientific ideas emerge with great promise, only to be dismissed or forgotten, and then, in different form, become accepted as important years later. Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould discuss the way words and images used by scientists and popularizers alike, from the murals on the walls of natural history museums to such ubiquitous terms as "adaptation" and "environment," reflect deep and largely unacknowledged distortions in the way we conceive both individual organisms and the natural history of the world. Together, these five essays show that science is, in the words of Oliver Sacks, "a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too. It grows out of its past, but never outgrows it, any more than we outgrow our childhood.".

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• Titre: HIDDEN HISTORIES OF SCIENCE: Oliver Sacks ~ Jonathan Miller ~ Stephen Jay Gould ~ Daniel J. Kevles ~ R.C. Lewontin
• Éditeur: NY. 1995. NYREV / A New York Review Book
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 094032203X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780940322035
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • biology
  • psychology
  • history of science

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We often think of science as continuously advancing. In this collection of essays, five world-renowned writers explore obscure and neglected episodes in the history of science which suggest instead that the process of understanding the significance of scientific discoveries can be erratic, contradictory, even irrational. Jonathan Miller, Oliver Sacks, and Daniel Kevles show how promising new ideas may at first fail to be noticed or accepted, and then, years after they have been dismissed or forgotten, are recognized in a different form as important. R.C. Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould discuss the ways that words and images used by scientists and popularizers alike, from the murals on the walls of natural history museums to such ubiquitous terms as "adaptation" and "environment," reflect serious and often unacknowledged distortions in the way we conceive of both individual organisms and the natural history of the world.

These essays demonstrate that science is, in the words of Oliver Sacks, "a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too. It grows out of its past, but never outgrows it, any more than we outgrow our childhood."