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The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox (2003) is Stephen Jay Gould's posthumous volume exploring the historically complex relationship between the sciences and the humanities in a scholarly discourse.
- Stephen Jay Gould
- 2003
But these old sayings developed sharp edges in a quite conscious (and often virulently contentious) argument that swept through the intellectual world of seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century France and England, and entered the record of history as the debate between Ancients and Moderns.
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox is a controversial discourse, rich with facts and observations gathered by one of the most erudite minds of our time.
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Harvard University Press, 2011
- illustrated, reprint
29 de nov. de 2011 · About this book. In his final book, Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against each other for far too long.
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox. : In characteristic form, Gould weaves the ideas of some of Western society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo...
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Jonathan Cape, 2003
- illustrated
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Gould uses the metaphor of the hedgehog - who goes after one thing at a measured pace, systematically investigating all; the fox - skilled at many things, intuitive and fast; and the magister's pox - a censure from the Catholic Church involved in Galileo's downfall: to illustrate the different ways of responding to knowledge - in a scientific ...
