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The ascent of man [by] J. Bronowski.
Record details
- ISBN: 0316109304
- ISBN: 9780316109307
- Physical Description: 448 p. illus. 26 cm.
- Edition: [1st American ed.].
- Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown [1974, c1973]
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Bibliography: p. 440-442.
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- Subject:
- Science > Philosophy.
Science > History.
Human beings.
Natuurwetenschappen.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | Q 175 .N7918 | 261139 | Stacks | Available | - |
| Lower than the Angels. Animal adaptation -- The human alternative -- Beginning in Africa -- Fossil evidence -- The gift of foresight -- Evolution of the head -- The mosaic of man -- The cultures of the hunter -- Across the ice ages -- Transhumance cultures: the Lapps -- Imagination in cave art -- The Harvest of the Seasons The pace of cultural evolution -- Nomad cultures: the Bakhtiari -- Beginnings of agriculture: wheat -- Jericho -- Earthquake country -- Technology in the village -- The wheel -- Domestication of animals: the horse -- War games: Buz Kashi -- Settled civilisation. The Grain in the Stone. Coming to the New World -- Blood group evidence of migrations -- The actions of shaping and splitting -- Structure and hierarchy -- The city: Machu Picchu -- Straight-edge architecture: Paestum -- The Roman arch: Segovia -- The Gothic adventure: Rheims -- Science as architecture -- The hidden figure: Michelangelo to Moore -- Pleasure in construction -- Below the visible -- The Hidden Structure. Fire, the transforming element -- Extraction of metals: copper -- The structure of alloys -- Bronze as a work of art -- Iron to steel: the Japanese sword -- Gold -- The incorruptible -- Alchemical theory of man and nature -- Paracelsus and the coming of chemistry -- Fire and air: Joseph Priestley -- Antoine Lavoisier: combination can be quantified -- John Dalton's atomic theory -- The Music of the Spheres. The language of numbers -- The key to harmony: Pythagoras -- The right-angled triangle -- Euclid and Ptolemy at Alexandria -- Rise of Islam -- Arabic numbers -- The Alhambra: patterns of space -- Crystal symmetries -- Perspective from Alhazen -- Movement in time, the new dynamic -- The mathematics of change -- The Starry Messenger. The cycle of seasons -- The unmapped sky: Easter Island -- Ptolemy's system in the Dondi Clock -- Copernicus: the sun as centre -- The telescope -- Galileo opens the scientific method -- Prohibition of the Copernican system -- Dialogue on the two systems -- The Inquisition -- Galileo recants -- The Scientific Revolution moves north -- The Majestic Clockwork. Kepler's laws -- The centre of the world -- Isaac Newton's innovations: fluxions -- Unfolding the spectrum -- Gravitation and the Principia -- The intellectual dictator -- Challenge in satire -- Newton's absolute space -- Absolute time -- Albert Einstein -- The traveller carries his own space and time -- Relativity is proved -- The new philosophy -- The Drive for Power. The English revolution -- Everyday technology: James Brindley -- The revolt against privilege: Figaro -- Benjamin Franklin and the American revolution -- The new men: masters of iron -- The new outlook: Wedgwood and the Lu Lunar society -- The driving factory -- The new preoccupation: energy -- The cornucopia of invention -- The unity of nature -- The Ladder of Creation. The naturalists -- Charles Darwin -- Alfred Wallace -- Impact of South America -- The wealth of species -- Wallace loses his collection -- Natural selection conceived -- The continuity of evolution -- Louis Pasteur: right hand, left hand -- Chemical constants in evolution -- The origin of life -- The four bases -- Are other forms of life possible? World Within World. The cube of salt -- Its elements -- Mendeleev's game of patience -- The periodic table -- J.J. Thomson: the atom has parts -- Structure in new art -- Structure in the atom: Rutherford and Niels Bohr -- The life cycle of a theory -- The nucleus has parts -- The neutron: Chadwick and Fermi -- Evolution of the elements -- The second law as statistics -- Stratified stability -- Copying the physics of nature -- Ludwig Boltzmann: atoms are real -- Knowledge or Certainty. There is no absolute knowledge -- The spectrum of invisible radiations -- The refinement of detail -- Gauss and the idea of uncertainty -- The sub-structure of reality: Max Born -- Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty -- The principle of tolerance: Leo Szilard -- Science is human -- Generation upon Generation. The voice of insurrection -- The kitchen garden naturalist: Gregor Mendel -- Genetics of the pea -- Instant oblivion -- An all-or-nothing model of inheritance -- The magic number two: sex -- Crick and Watson's model o of DNA -- Replication and growth -- Cloning of identical forms -- Sexual choice in human diversity -- The Long Childhood. Man, the social solitary -- Human specificity -- Specific development of the brain -- Precision of the hand -- The speech areas -- The postponement of decision -- The mind as an instrument of preparation -- The democracy of the intellect -- The moral imagination -- The brain and the computer: John von Neumann -- The strategy of values -- Knowledge is our destiny -- The commitment of man. |