Knowledge among men : eleven essays on science, culture, and society commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of James Smithson

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Knowledge among men : eleven essays on science, culture, and society commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of James Smithson

Introd. by S. Dillon Ripley. [Edited and with introds. by Paul H. Oehser]

Simon and Schuster, c1966

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Contents of Works

  • The perfectibility of intellect, by J. S. Bruner
  • History as the organization of man's memory, by H. Butterfield
  • The value of art in an expanding world, by Sir K. M. Clark
  • Conservation and man's environment, by I. M. Cowan
  • On being a meter and a half long, by G. E. Hutchinson
  • Biological and mental evolution, an exercise in analogy, by A. Koestler
  • Anthropology: its achievements and future, by C. Lévi-Strauss
  • Technics and the nature of man, by L. Mumford
  • Physics and man's understanding, by R. Oppenheimer
  • Intellectual values and the future, by S. E. Toulmin
  • Knowledge and understanding of the physical universe as determinants of man's progress, by F. L. Whipple

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  • NCID
    BA33660836
  • LCCN
    66019430
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    191 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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