Darwin's Audubon

Science and the Liberal Imagination

Gerald Weissmann

340 pages, parution le 29/03/2002

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Résumé

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 watercolors 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.

Contents

Introduction 1
1 Darwin's Audubon 9
2 Inflammation as Cultural History 25
3 Gertrude Stein and the Ctenophore 35
4 Puerperal Priority 49
5 Bete Noire 61
6 Science Fictions 69
7 Call Me Madame 81
8 The Woods Hole Cantata 87
9 Foucault and the Bag Lady 97
10 In Quest of Fleck: Science from the Holocaust 107
11 Auden and the Liposome 115
12 No Ideas but in Things 125
13 Nobel Week 1982 137
14 They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus 149
15 Westward the Course of Empire 159
16 Nullius in Verba: Lupus at the Royal Society 179
17 Springtime for Pernkopf 191
18 The Baron of Bellevue 207
19 The Doctor with Two Heads 215
20 Wordsworth at the Barbican 235
21 Losing a MASH 245
22 To the Nobska Lighthouse 255
23 Titanic and Leviathan 269
24 Daumier and the Deer Tick 283
Sources 311
Credits 325
Index 329
Acknowledgments 339

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Perseus Publishing
Auteur(s)	Gerald Weissmann
Parution	29/03/2002
Nb. de pages	340
Format	15 x 22,8
Couverture	Broché
Poids	483g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780738205977
ISBN13	978-0-7382-0597-7