Stephen Jay Gould. Le pietre false di Marrakech

E' imminente la pubblicazione italiana postuma del libro di Stephen Jay Gould. Le pietre false di Marrakech. Traduzione di Libero Sosio. Il Saggiatore, collana La cultura, pp. 480
Sommario dall'edizione originale:
CONTENTS Preface I Episodes in the Birth of PaleontologyThe Nature of Fossils and the History of the Earth 1. The Lying Stones of Marrakech2. The Sharp-Eyed Lynx, Outfoxed by Nature3. How the Vulva Stone Became a Brachiopod II Present at the Creation How France's Three Finest Scientists Established Natural History in an Age of Revolution 4. Inventing Natural History in Style 5. The Proof of Lavoisier's Plates 6. A Tree Grows in Paris: Lamark's Division of Worms and Revision of Nature III Darwin's Century-- And Ours Lessons from Britain's Four Greatest Victorian Naturalists 7. Lyell's Pillars of Wisdom 8. A Sly Dullard Named Darwin: Recognizing the Multiple Facets of Genius 9. An Awful Terrible dinosaurian Irony 10. Second-Guessing the Future IV Six Little Pieces on the Meaning and Location of Excellence Substrate and Accomplishment 11. Drink Deep, or Taste Not the Pierian Spring 12. Requiem Eternal 13. More Power to Him De Mortuis When Truly Bonum 14. Bright Star Among Billions 15. The Glory of His Time and Ours 16. This Was a Man V Science in Society 17. A tale of Two Work Sites 18. The Internal Brand of the Scarlet W 19. Dolly's Fashion and Louis's Passion 20. Above All, Do No Harm VI Evolution at all Scales 21. Of Embryos and Ancestors 22. The Paradox of the Visibly Irrelevant 23. Room of One's Own

A Tale of Two Work Sites, Capitolo V. Science in Society. p. 251-268 è stato recentemente tradotto in italiano con il titolo Darwin e l'incendio nella fabbrica di stoffe e pubblicato su MicroMega 2/2007, Almanacco di scienze, pp. 109-126, 2007
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