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Gould's seventh collection of essays covers a wide range of subjects in natural history, literature, and popular culture--from the wisdom of Charles Darwin to that of the Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park to the dinosaurs of the latest scientific theories, from the... read more
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GALILEO DESCRIBED THE UNIVERSE in his most famous line: "This grand book is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures."
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- Stephen Jay Gould (Author)
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