The common sense of science

Author(s)

Bibliographic Information

The common sense of science

by J. Bronowski ; with a foreword by Hermann Bondi

Harvard University Press, c1978

  • pbk.

Available at  / 2 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Includes index

Contents of Works

  • Science and sensibility
  • The scientific revolution and the machine
  • Isaac Newton's model
  • The eighteenth century and the idea of order
  • The nineteenth century and the idea of causes
  • The idea of chance
  • The common sense of science
  • Truth and value
  • Science, the destroyer or creator

Description and Table of Contents

Description

J. Bronowski was both a distinguished mathematician and a poet, a philosopher of science and a literary critic who wrote a well-known study of William Blake. Dr. Bronowski's very career was founded on the premise of an intimate connection between science and the humanities, disciplines which are still generally thought to be worlds apart. The Common Sense of Science, a book which remains as topical today as it was when it first appeared twenty-five years ago, articulates and develops Bronowski's provocative idea that the sciences and the arts fundamentally share the same imaginative vision.

Table of Contents

1. Science and Sensibility 2. The Scientific Revolution and the Machine 3. Isaac Newton's Model 4. The Eighteenth Century and the Idea of Order 5. The Nineteenth Century and the Idea of Causes 6. The Idea of Chance 7. The Common Sense of Science 8. Truth and Value 9. Science, the Destroyer or Creator

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

Page Top