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Darwin's Audubon : science and the liberal imagination
Weissmann, Gerald2001
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In this text, the reader is presented with Gerald Weissmann's perspective on what C.P. Snow once dubbed 'the Two Cultures' - art and science. He examines the influence that the two exert over one another and how they have helped each other evolve. In this retrospective of Gerald Weissmann's best-known essays, the reader is treated to his unique perspective on what C. P. Snow once dubbed "the Two Cultures"-art and science. In Darwin's Audubon, Weissmann examines the powerful influence that the two exert over one another and how they have helped each other evolve. From listening to the scientists who gather ever year to sing at the Woods Hole Cantata Consort to looking at the influence of Audubon's watercolours on Darwin's On the Origin of Species from comparing William Carlos Williams's poetry to his unedited case books to watching Oliver Wendell Holmes grow as doctor and as poet, Weissmann weaves a rich tapestry that will delight fans and newcomers alike.
Main title:
Darwin's Audubon : science and the liberal imagination / new and selected essays by Gerald Weissmann.
Author:
Imprint:
Cambridge, MA : Perseus Pub., 2001, c1998.
Collation:
viii, 340 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-323) and index.
ISBN:
9780738205977
Dewey class:
500
LC class:
Q173
Language:
English
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BRN:
4377636
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