Common Sense of Science

by Bronowski, Jacob

• ISBN13: 9780674146518
• ISBN10: 0674146514
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1978-09-19
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

The late Dr. 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

Science and Sensibility	1	(11)
The Scientific Revolution and the Machine	12	(14)
Isaac Newton's Model	26	(15)
The Eighteenth Century and the Idea of Order	41	(15)
The Nineteenth Century and the Idea of Causes	56	(23)
The Idea of Chance	79	(18)
The Common Sense of Science	97	(23)
Truth and Value	120	(18)
Science, the Destroyer or Creator	138