books by Jacob Bronowski
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Jacob Bronowski
The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination (The Silliman Memorial Lectures Series)
Jacob Bronowski
Yale University Press
, 1979
Musings of one of the premiere philosophers of science
Jacob Bronowski was one of the best philosophers of science ever to walk the Earth. His perspectives on the role of science in our world are some of the most profound and meaningful statements on how humans view themselves, each other and the universe in general. This ...
The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski
Little Brown & Co (P)
, 1976
Inspired many copiers but is still the best...
Previous reviews don't do Bronowski justice. He began as a mathematician; but after being sent to Hiroshima, as part of a team studying the aftereffects of the nuclear blast, he switched to biology. He was warm and articulate. A poet himself, he was one of the few ...
The Identity of Man (Great Minds Series)
Jacob Bronowski
Prometheus Books
, 2002
Bronowski at his best
Once again J. Bronowski has written an insightful book concerning the major problem of our time: how to integrate the findings of modern science to the humanist problem of values.
Science and Human Values
Jacob Bronowski
Harper Perennial
, 1990
Science & Human Values as a Critique of Logical Positivism
Bronowski's "Science & Human Values" should be purchased with A.J. Ayer's "Language, Truth & Logic" --the quintessential explanation of the "verifibility criterion of meaning". Just as the Russell/Whitehead "Principia Mathematica" sought to ground mathematics ...
The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski
Little, Brown & Company
, 1976
A remarkable time in history
Nowadays many different books have been written to explain the unfolding of humans and civilization. This book covers many great products and inventors instead of all the great wars. In the 1970s this was unique to the public. And this book is the template for those ...
Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel
Jacob Bronowski,
Bruce Mazlish
Harper Perennial
, 1962
An Entertaining Tour of Western Thought
Despite its forbidding title, The Western Intellectual Tradition is a readable overview of Western thought from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Bronowski and Mazlish's book is an entertaining way to refresh your memory about that Western Civilization course ...
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