Contents
Come Seven
Part One: Heaven and Earth
1. Happy Thoughts On a Sunny Day in New York City
2. Dousing Diminutive Dennis's Debate (or DDD = 2000)
3. The Celestial Mechanic and the Earthly Naturalist
4. The Late Birth of a Flat Earth
Part Two: Literature and Science
5. The Monster's Human Nature
6. The Tooth and Claw Centennial
7. Sweetness and Light
Part Three: Origin, Stability, and Extiction
Origin
8. In the Mind of the Beholder
9. Of Tongue Worms, Velvet Worms, and Water Bears
Stability
10. Cordelia's Dilemma
11. Lucy on the Earth in Stasis
Extinction
12. Dinosaur in a Haystack
13. Jove's Thunderbolts
Part Four: Writing about Snails
14. Poe's Greatest hit
15. The Invisible Woman
16. Left Snails and Right Minds
Part Five: The glory of Museums
17. Dinomania
18. Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O!
19. Evolution by Walking
20. The Razumovsky Duet
21. Four Antelopes of the Apocalypse
Part Six: Disparate faces of Eugenes
22. Does the Stoneless Plum instruct the thinking Reed?
23. The Smoking Gun of Eugenics
24. The Most Unkindest Cut of All
Part Seven: Evolutionary Theory, Evolutionary Stories
Theory
25. Can We Complete Darwin's Revolutionary Stories
26. A Humongous Fungus Among us
27. Speaking of Snails and Scales
Stories
28. Hooking Leviathan by Its Past
29. A Special Fondness for Beetles
30. If Kings Can Be Hermits, Then We are All Monkeys' Uncles
31. Magnolias from Moscow
Part Eight: Linnaeus and Darwin's Grandfather
32. The First Unmasking of Nature
33. Ordering Nature by Budding and Full-Breasted Sexuality
34. Four Metaphors in three Generations
Bibliography
Index