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Science and the Creative Spirit : Essays on Humanistic Aspects of Science.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Heritage SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014Copyright date: ©1958Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (194 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442632592
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Science and the Creative SpiritLOC classification:
  • Q175 .S354 1958
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- WHY THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN: AN INTRODUCTION -- I: SCIENTIFIC AND HUMANISTIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE GROWTH OF CIVILIZATION -- II: "THOSE SCATTERED RAYS CONVERGENT": SCIENCE AND IMAGINATION IN ENGLISH LITERATURE -- III: TENSIONS AND ANXIETIES: SCIENCE AND THE LITERARY CULTURE OF FRANCE -- IV: THE CREATIVITY OF SCIENCE.
Summary: Men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding. This symposium sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, stressed that it is only in a spirit of disinterested yet sincere evaluation that science and humanism can escape disastrous consequences in the future.
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Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- WHY THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN: AN INTRODUCTION -- I: SCIENTIFIC AND HUMANISTIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE GROWTH OF CIVILIZATION -- II: "THOSE SCATTERED RAYS CONVERGENT": SCIENCE AND IMAGINATION IN ENGLISH LITERATURE -- III: TENSIONS AND ANXIETIES: SCIENCE AND THE LITERARY CULTURE OF FRANCE -- IV: THE CREATIVITY OF SCIENCE.

Men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding. This symposium sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, stressed that it is only in a spirit of disinterested yet sincere evaluation that science and humanism can escape disastrous consequences in the future.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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