The Common Sense of Science - Softcover

Bronowski, J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0435541323 ISBN 13: 9780435541323

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books - Secondary Division, 1978

Synopsis

The main personal interest of Dr. J. Bronowski, the distinguished scientist, broadcaster, and man of letters, was the relation between the arts and science. In this book he attempts to translate the new culture of science into terms which any intelligent person can understand, and thus to dispel the common prejudice brought on by difficulties in perceiving the ideas of science behind the technical jargon in which they are expressed. Bronowski's method is to approach the reader across the real and important interests which he already possesses: history, literature, and the everyday affairs of his life. This is not a book about any particular science: it is a book about the essential nature of science and how it appears in the lives of each of us.

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About the Author

Jacob Bronowski was born in Poland in 1908. At the age of 12 he came to England, and within six years was a brilliant mathematics student at Cambridge. During the war he helped to forecast the economic effects of bombing Germany. After many years working for the National Coal Board, he moved to the Salk Institute in 1964 while developing his career as a broadcaster. In 1973, he presented for the BBC the ambitious 13-part series The Ascent of Man, which made him a household name. He died the following year.

Review

YDr.Bronowski has packed more thought, more idealism, and more uncommon sense then have probably ever before appeared between book covers in anywhere near so small a compass. "The Common Sense of Science" is at once a brief history of science from the time of Isaac Newton to the time of Albert Einstein; a guide to the relation of science (pure as well as applied) to our thinking, our ordinary lives, and ourselves; and a moving appeal for mutual understanding between science and general culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books - Secondary Division
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0435541323
• ISBN 13: 9780435541323
• Binding: Paperback