Title: The origins of knowledge and imagination /
Authors: Bronowski, Jacob,
Date: 1978
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Physical description: xiii, 144 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
LC class: B
Abstract: Contains lectures given by Bronowski on the role of science in the intellectual and moral life of man.
Contents: Foreword / by S.E. Luria -- The mind as an instrument for understanding -- The evolution and power of symbolic language -- Knowledge as algorithm and as metaphor -- The laws of nature and the nature of laws -- Error, progress, and the concept of time -- Law and individual responsibility.
Notes: Includes index.