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Article: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History.(Brief Article)
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould (New York: Harmony Books, 1998); 422 pp.; $25.00 cloth.
Stephen Jay Gould's eighth book of essays is drawn from his previously published material in Natural History magazine and covers a wide range of topics. The title derives from two of the subjects discussed: Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, in which he comments--long before Charles Darwin--about mountain-top discoveries of clam shells and other fossils; and Martin Luther's 1521 command appearance before the Holy Roman Empire's diet, which met periodically in the old German city of Worms to conduct its legislative ...