Thought-provoking essays on science as an integral part of the culture of our age from a leader in the scientific humanism movement. "A profoundly moving, brilliantly perceptive essay by a truly civilized man."--Scientific American

Science and Human Values

Arts & Photography

Bronowski, Jacob

History & Criticism

Harper-perennial

Science & Math

HarperCollins, Publishers

Heywood Hale Broun interviews Dr. Jacob Bronowski who provides a fascinating summary of the achievements of man that is an affirmation of Homo sapiens' adaptive nature. 1 audio cassette (56 min.). Product no. C40065

The Ascent of Man (Penguin Classic History S.)

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Classics

Clean, tight book. Dust jacket with chipping and rubbing. By the author of the widely-read The Ascent of Man. Number 20, Bampton Lectures in America, Delivered at Columbia University.

Magic, science, and civilization (Bampton lectures in America)

Columbia University Press

The well-known scientist discusses the place of science in the total field of human knowledge throughout the history of Western civilization and the importance of scientific values in the twentieth century

Magic, Science, and Civilization (Bampton Lectures in America, No. 20)

History

Americas

Selected by Piero E. Ariotti in collaboration with Rita Bronowski

The visionary eye: Essays in the arts, literature, and science

Literature & Fiction

Ariotti, Piero E.

Bronowski, Rita

Essays & Correspondence

MIT Press]

Jacob Bronowski truly educated an enormous number of members of that diffuse population usually referred to, with a hint of condescension, as "educated laymen" through his widely shared television series on the concepts of science and through such highly regarded books as The Identity of Man and The Ascent of Man. This volume extends the process to a further level of insight, and it may be more than suggestive that its final essay is entitled "The Fulfillment of Man." Bronowski was an extraordinary teacher precisely because he did not condescend to his audience. He did not talk down to them; he knew how to talk them up to something near his own level, however briefly. He felt that if human beings are taken seriously, they can be led to respond to serious and difficult subjects that relate to the deepest aspects of nature, both beyond and within themselves. A Sense of the Future succeeds brilliantly in this respect, in part because it is a collection of essays that can be read independently as self-contained, delimited presentations; and in part because the book is more than the sum of these individual essays—it is a unified whole in which Bronowski's most abiding concerns are interrelated, juxtaposed, and tested for consistency in various intellectual contexts. The major unifying theme of the work is the intensely creative and human nature of the scientific enterprise—its kinship, at the highest levels of individual achievement, with comparable manifestations of the artistic imagination, and its ethical imperatives, evolved within the community of scientists over the centuries, which both embody and forge the values of civilized life at large. Still, the book's diversity of topics is as striking as the unity of its aim. Among the subjects within the realm of Bronowski's mind that are presented here are the limitations of formal logic and experimental methods, the epistemology of science, the distinctive nature of human language and the human mind, and the bases of biological and cultural evolution. Bronowski also contrasts the findings of science as the "here and now" of man's understanding with the ongoing activity of science as the open-ended search for truth, and he undertakes to demonstrate that the factual, individual is and the ethical, societal ought can be derived each from the other. A mathematician by training, Bronowski published poetry as well as books on literature and intellectual history. In addition to those mentioned above, The Common Sense of Science and Science and Human Values are among the most widely read of his books. Before his death in 1974, he was for many years a Senior Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where his formal area of research was concerned with the questions of human specificity and uniqueness. Clearly, his interests ranged far beyond this area, and in many directions.

A Sense of the Future: Essays in Natural Philosophy (Mit Press)

Eleven lively essays exploring the human imagination at work across the spectrum of the arts—music, poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture, industrial design, and engineering.

The Visionary Eye: Essays in the Arts, Literature, and Science

The Silliman Memorial lecture series was established in 1888 in memory of Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman, the wife of Gold S. Silliman, the mother of Benjamin Silliman, one of the first professors of science at Yale University and the first person to fractionate petroleum. It was established from a legacy of $80,000 left in 1883 and the fund was possessed by Yale University, who publish the lectures, in 1901. The lectures are designed to illustrate the presence and providence, the wisdom and goodness of God, as manifested in the natural and moral world. It is the belief of the testator that any orderly presentation of the facts of nature or history contributed to the end of this foundation more effectively than any attempt to emphasize the elements of doctrine or creed; and he therefore provided that lectures on dogmatic or polemical theology should be excluded from the scope of this foundation, and that the subjects should be selected rather from the domains of natural science and history, giving special prominence to astronomy, chemistry, geology, and anatomy.

The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination (Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures)

Yale University Press

“A gem of enlightenment. . . . One rejoices in Bronowski’s dedication to the identity of acts of creativity and of imagination, whether in Blake or Yeats or Einstein or Heisenberg.”―Kirkus Reviews “According to Bronowski, our account of the world is dictated by our biology: how we perceive, imagine, symbolize, etc. He proposes to explain how we receive and translate our experience of the world so that we achieve knowledge. He examines the mechanisms of our perception; the origin and nature of natural language; formal systems and scientific discourse; and how science, as a systematic attempt to establish closed systems one after another, progresses by exploring its own errors and new but unforeseen connections. . . . A delightful look at the inquiring mind.”―Library Journal “Eminently enjoyable to read, with a good story or ‘bon mot’ on every page.”―Nature “A well-written and brilliantly presented defense of the scientific enterprise which could be especially valuable to scientists and to teachers of science at all levels.”―AAAS Science Books &amp; Films Contents 1. The Mind as an Instrument for Understanding 2. The Evolution and Power of Symbolic Language 3. Knowledge as Algorithm and as Metaphor 4. The Laws of Nature and the Nature of Laws 5. Error, Progress, and the Concept of Time 6. Law and Individual Responsibility

The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination (The Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures Series)

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Science and Human Values

Science and Human Values

The Ascent of Man (Penguin Classic History S.)

Magic, science, and civilization (Bampton lectures in America)

Magic, Science, and Civilization (Bampton Lectures in America, No. 20)

The visionary eye: Essays in the arts, literature, and science

A Sense of the Future: Essays in Natural Philosophy (Mit Press)

The Visionary Eye: Essays in the Arts, Literature, and Science

The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination (Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures)

The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination (The Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures Series)