Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural HistoryHarvard University Press, 2011 - 422 pagine This unique volume of 21 recent essays published in "Natural History" magazine consciously formulates a humanistic natural history, telling how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself. 41 illustrations. |
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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History Stephen Jay Gould Visualizzazione estratti - 1998 |
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History Stephen Jay Gould Visualizzazione estratti - 1998 |
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History Stephen Jay Gould Visualizzazione estratti - 1999 |
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