An edition of The ascent of man
(1973)
The ascent of man
[1st American ed.]
by Jacob Bronowski
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Traces the development of science and the discoveries that have made man unique among animal species.
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The ascent of man
1974, Little, Brown
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Table of Contents
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 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
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
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 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 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
The Copernican system
Dialogue on the two systems
The Inquisition
Galileo recants
The Scientific Revolution moves north
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 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 Lunar Society
The driving factory
The new preoccupation: energy
The cornucopia of invention
The unity of nature
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?
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
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
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 of DNA
Replication and growth
Cloning of identical forms
Sexual choice in human diversity
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
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 440-442.
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