Every living thing the great and deadly race to know all life
"An epic, extraordinary account of rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth -- a competition whose consequences still reverberate today -- from the bestselling author of A Sense of the World. In the eighteenth century, two men -- exact contemporaries and polar opposites -- d...
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New York :
Random House,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Savants
- Prelude : The mask and the veil
- Part I. The great chain of being. Of the linden tree
- A course in starvation
- The salt-keeper's son
- Vegetable lambs and barnacle trees
- Several bridegrooms, several brides
- The greater gift of patience
- Now in blame, now in honor
- The seven-headed hydra of Hamburg
- An abridgment of the world entire
- Loathsome harlotry
- The quarrel of the universals
- Part II. This prodigious multitude. Goldfish for the queen
- Covering myself in dust and ashes
- The only prize available
- Durable and even eternal
- Baobab-zu-zu
- So many new and unknown parts
- Governed by laws, governed by whim
- A general prototype
- Breaking the lens
- My cold years
- The price of time
- Part III. God's registrar. Germinal, Floreal, Thermidor, Messidor
- Transformism and catastrophism
- Platypus
- Laughably like mine
- The rhymes of the universe
- Most human of humans
- A large web or rather a network.
