Bronowski

Bronowski, Jacob. The ascent of man. London British Broadcasting Corporation, 1973. 448p. 

Bronowski, Jacob. Magic, science and civilization. New York Columbia Univ. 

J. Bronowski, The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination, Vail-Ballou, Binghampton, NY, 1978. 

Gold is the universal prize . J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man (London Book Club Associates, 1973), 134. 

Bronowski, J. 1956. Science and Human Values. New York Harper Row. 

Bronowski, J. The Common Sense of Science. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 1953. 

As I have written elsewhere, I think an essential part of the moral ideal of science can be found in Jacob Bronowski s book, Science and Human Values, the habit of truth (1956). Science is the dispassionate search for deep knowledge of the natural world, what Einstein called, the secrets of the Old One (French 1979,275). The best scientific research is driven by an insatiable curiosity about the way the world works. And because scientific knowledge is severely constrained by experiment, scientists are bound by what Richard Feynman called a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty—a kind of leaning over backwards (1985, P-341). 

Tower was developed by pedigree selection in the progeny from the cross (Bronowski x Turret x Turret ) x (Liho x (Turret x Turret ) (Stefansson and Kondra 1975). It had an erucic acid concentration of less than 1% in the seed oil and... 

In his 1596 hook Mysterium Cosmographicum, Kepler proposed a solar system that placed the orbits of the six known planets on concentric spheres inscribed within and circumscribed on these five polyhedra arranged concentrically. In the words of Jacob Bronowski All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses. He states further To us, the analogies by which Kepler listened for the movement of the planets in the music of the spheres are farfetched. Yet are they more so than the wild leap by which Rutherford and Bohr in our own century found a model for the atom in, of all places, the planetary system ... 

Chemistry textbooks inform us that John Dalton formulated Atomic Theory in 1803 and imply that atoms were accepted from then on. Actually, such acceptance was far from universal and late-nineteenth-century books such as Brodie s The Calculus of Chemical Operations (London, 1866,1877) and Hunt s A New Basis for Chemistry A Chemical Philosophy (Boston, 1887), although antiatomic In nature, were not written by cranks or nutters. The eminent physicist Ernst Mach and the famous chemist Wilhelm Ostwald resisted the reality of atoms Into the beginning of the twentieth century. Jacob Bronowski strongly implies that the suicide in 1906 of Ludwig Boltzmann, who successfully explained heat as atomic and molecular motion, stemmed in part from his failure to totally convince the scientific community that atoms are real. ... 

And what does that mean In the 1920s Louis DeBroglie described electrons as both particles and waves because they have precise mass, go splat-splat-splat (or click-click-click ) into Geiger counters yet show interference like radio and light waves. It is one thing to say particle-waves and quite another to really picture them. Try it. Our problem is that electrons are outside of both our direct senses and experiences. As Bronowski notes, twentieth-century physics introduced abstraction and uncertainty and the need for what he describes as tolerance in modeling nature." The nineteenth-century satire Flatland by Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott illustrates our limitations. ... 

J. Bronowski, the popular historian of science, wrote that we devise more precise instruments with which to observe nature with more fineness. And when we look at the observations, we are discomfited to see that they are still fuzzy, and we feel that they are as uncertain as ever. We seem to be running after a goal which lurches away from us to infinity every time we come within sight of it. The Ascent of Man, 1973). 

Jacob Bronowski, the renowned mathematician and philosopher of science, cited Bohr s theory as an example of human creativity in developing scientific theories. If there is, in reality, no "planetary structure" of the atom, how did Bohr derive his "picture" Bronowski speculated that, much as an artist or an author composes metaphors based upon life experiences and world views, perhaps Bohr s innate desire to imagine a unified pattern in nature led him to postulate a structure for the smallest chemically significant bits of matter reflecting one of the largest structures, the solar system. Bohr was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1922. 

While electrons are now commonly said to be both particles and waves or neither people live in a macroscopic, slow-moving world and lack the ability to truly imagine a particle-wave. This difficulty was nicely stated by Jacob Bronowski On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, the electron would behave like a particle on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays it would behave as a wave. ... 

Brock, William H., O. T. Benfey, and S. Stark. Hofmann s Benzene Tree at the Kekuie Festivities." Journal of Chemical Education 68 (1991) 887-88. Bronowski, Jacob. The Visionary Eye Essays in the Arts, Literature, and Science. Cambridge, MA MIT Press, 1978. 

The chosen three examples result from our newly developed understanding of protein-catalyzed energy conversion. This brings us to the modern-day situation so well-stated by J. Bronowski, In effect, the modem problem is no longer to design a structure from the materials, but to design the materials for a stmeture. ... 

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