The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher e-book

by Lewis Thomas

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A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, he was the dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and the president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. Thomas insight, wit and academic humor is not only a pleasure to read but emboldens you to love and respect nature. That we should all do more to preserve the delicate balance of this life.

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Many of his essays discuss relationships among ideas or concepts using etymology as a starting point. The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher, 1979, Viking Press: ISBN 0-670-46568-2, Penguin Books, 1995 reprint: ISBN 0-14-024319-4. Others concern the cultural implications of scientific discoveries and the growing awareness of ecology. In his essay on Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Thomas addresses the anxieties produced by the development of nuclear weapons. Thomas is often quoted, given his notably eclectic interests and superlative prose style.

Thomas is best known for The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, a book I read in high school of which I have only the vaguest of recollections. I remember liking it, but it seems to have dribbled away. I can't find that old copy either.

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974) is collection of 29 essays written by Lewis Thomas for the New England Journal of Medicine between 1971 and 1973. Throughout his essays, Thomas touches on subjects as various as biology, anthropology, medicine, music (showing a particular affinity for Bach), etymology, mass communication, and computers. The pieces resonate with the underlying theme of the interconnected nature of Earth and all living things.

Most of these essays originally appeared in The New England journal of medicine. Six printings through February 1986.

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Book in the Notes of a Biology Watcher Series). Lewis Thomas is just a great writer, full of personality and wonder. Prepare to be thoroughly amazed by Dr. Lewis Thomas' descriptions of the most remarkable features of our natural world. The first thing you should read is the essay on warts. The title story serves to illustrate his literary technique. This essay is a mere four and a half pages. The protagonists are a sea slug and a jellyfish, which Dr. Thomas re-christens with artistic license. The lead sentence is "We've never been so self-conscious as we seem to be these days.

Author : Lewis Thomas. Publisher : Penguin Publishing Group

Author : Lewis Thomas. Publisher : Penguin Publishing Group. Readers will find themselves caught up in the fate of the medusa and the snail as a metaphor for eternal issues of life and death as Lewis Thomas further extends the exploration of man and his world begun in The Lives of a Cell. Among the treasures in this magnificent book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts, and on Montaigne, as well as an assessment of medical science and health care. In these essays and others, Thomas once again conveys his observations of the scientific world in prose marked by wonder and wi.

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Xor

I first read Lives of a Cell by Thomas many years ago while in college and it was one of those things that changed my perception of the world. I have re read Lives many times since and always wished to explore more by Thomas. Finally, too many years later, I ordered Medusa and couldn't wait to tear into it. Of course it proved to be everything I had come to expect from reading Lives. Thomas insight, wit and academic humor is not only a pleasure to read but emboldens you to love and respect nature. That we should all do more to preserve the delicate balance of this life.

Shakar

Philosophy, science, and general information ina very small book

Bukelv

This collection of essays or thoughts or whatever it is classified as is wonderfully honest and simple. Thomas brings a certain wit and charm to some complex and taboo subjects such as dying, disease, warts, etc that allows you to totally disconnect and look at the big picture. For college folk out there the section on 'premeds' is especially funny.

elegant stranger

This is a great book. I wish I had known about it years ago. Lewis Thomas is just a great writer, full of personality and wonder. The first thing you should read is the essay on warts. I know. Why would anyone write about warts? It's one of the finest pieces of writing I've read, and I recommend it to anyone. Uplifting, makes you proud (and humble) to be a human being.

Anayaron

One of the most fascinating and easy to read books on a scientific topic you're ever likely to find. The author vividly illustrates just how entangled life is, while establishing a metaphor of the earth as a living being itself in a companion book entitled "Lives of a Cell". Once begun, you won't be able to put down either of these books. Highly entertaining, informative, and thought-provoking.

Yozshubei

Truly a great writer on broad biologic topics, making wonderful connections about the biosphere in which we all live. Able to write with great whimsy and wit. A writer of vast experience who is able to express and explore complex topics on a level that most will be able to understand and enjoy. His passing many years ago left an empty void for followers of his prose, which was anticipated regularly by readers of The New England Journal of Medicine.

Jarortr

I read 'lives of a cell' first. This is in the same vein, and just as beautiful. shipment was a little slow, but not too bad. Thank you.

I bought this book for the essay "Thinking about Thinking," and it was worth buying the entire book for that one essay. I have yet to read the rest of the book but this essay deals with cognition of music, and is appropriate for the ages. A must have for every musician (and possibly for music psychologists as well)!