The ascent of man
By: [by] J. Bronowski.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Science -- Philosophy; Science -- History; Human beings
Description: Traces the development of science and the discoveries that have made man unique among animal species.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 440-442.
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: 13; label: Chapter 1
title: Lower than the Angels
pagenum: 19; title: Animal adaptation; title: The human alternative; title: Beginning in Africa; title: Fossil evidence; title: The gift of foresight; title: Evolution of the head; title: The mosaic of man; title: The cultures of the hunter; title: Across the ice ages; title: Transhumance cultures: the Lapps; title: Imagination in cave art; label: Chapter 2
title: The Harvest of the Seasons
pagenum: 59; title: The pace of cultural evolution; title: Nomad cultures: the Bakhtiari; title: Beginnings of agriculture: wheat; title: Jericho; title: Earthquake country; title: Technology in the village; title: The wheel; title: Domestication of animals: the horse; title: War games: Buz Kashi; title: Settled civilisation; label: Chapter 3
title: The Grain in the Stone
pagenum: 91; title: Coming to the New World; title: Blood group evidence of migrations; title: The actions of shaping and splitting; title: Structure and hierarchy; title: The city: Machu Picchu; title: Straight-edge architecture: Paestum; title: The Roman arch: Segovia; title: The Gothic adventure: Rheims; title: Science as architecture; title: The hidden figure: Michelangelo to Moore; title: Pleasure in construction; title: Below the visible; label: Chapter 4
title: The Hidden Structure
pagenum: 123; title: Fire, the transforming element; title: Extraction of metals: copper; title: The structure of alloys; title: Bronze as a work of art; title: Iron to steel: the Japanese sword; title: Gold; title: The incorruptible; title: Alchemical theory of man and nature; title: Paracelsus and the coming of chemistry; title: Fire and air: Joseph Priestley; title: Antoine Lavoisier: combination can be quantified; title: John Dalton's atomic theory; label: Chapter 5
title: The Music of the Spheres
pagenum: 155; title: The language of numbers; title: The key to harmony: Pythagoras; title: The right-angled triangle; title: Euclid and Ptolemy at Alexandria; title: Rise of Islam; title: Arabic numbers; title: The Alhambra: patterns of space; title: Crystal symmetries; title: Perspective from Alhazen; title: Movement in time, the new dynamic; title: The mathematics of change; label: Chapter 6
title: The Starry Messenger
pagenum: 189; title: The cycle of seasons; title: The unmapped sky: Easter Island; title: Ptolemy's system in the Dondi Clock; title: Copernicus: the sun as centre; title: The telescope; title: Galileo opens the scientific method; title: The Copernican system; title: Dialogue on the two systems; title: The Inquisition; title: Galileo recants; title: The Scientific Revolution moves north; label: Chapter 7
title: The Majestic Clockwork
pagenum: 221; title: Kepler's laws; title: The centre of the world; title: Isaac Newton's innovations: fluxions; title: Unfolding the spectrum; title: Gravitation and the Principia; title: The intellectual dictator; title: Challenge in satire; title: Newton's absolute space; title: Absolute time; title: Albert Einstein; title: The traveller carries his own space and time; title: Relativity is proved; title: The new philosophy; label: Chapter 8
title: The Drive for Power
pagenum: 259; title: The English revolution; title: Everyday technology: James Brindley; title: The revolt against privilege: Figaro; title: Benjamin Franklin and the American revolution; title: The new men: masters of iron; title: The new outlook: Wedgwood and the Lunar Society; title: The driving factory; title: The new preoccupation: energy; title: The cornucopia of invention; title: The unity of nature; label: Chapter 9
title: The Ladder of Creation
pagenum: 291; title: The naturalists; title: Charles Darwin; title: Alfred Wallace; title: Impact of South America; title: The wealth of species; title: Wallace loses his collection; title: Natural selection conceived; title: The continuity of evolution; title: Louis Pasteur: right hand, left hand; title: Chemical constants in evolution; title: The origin of life; title: The four bases; title: Are other forms of life possible?; label: Chapter 10
title: World Within World
pagenum: 321; title: The cube of salt; title: Its elements; title: Mendeleev's game of patience; title: The periodic table; title: J. J. Thomson: the atom has parts; title: Structure in new art; title: Structure in the atom: Rutherford and Niels Bohr; title: The life cycle of a theory; title: The nucleus has parts; title: The neutron: Chadwick and Fermi; title: Evolution of the elements; title: The second law as statistics; title: Stratified stability; title: Copying the physics of nature; title: Ludwig Boltzmann: atoms are real; label: Chapter 11
title: Knowledge or Certainty
pagenum: 353; title: There is no absolute knowledge; title: The spectrum of invisible radiations; title: The refinement of detail; title: Gauss and the idea of uncertainty; title: The sub-structure of reality: Max Born; title: Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty; title: The principle of tolerance: Leo Szilard; title: Science is human; label: Chapter 12
title: Generation upon Generation
pagenum: 379; title: The voice of insurrection; title: The kitchen garden naturalist: Gregor Mendel; title: Genetics of the pea; title: Instant oblivion; title: An all-or-nothing model of inheritance; title: The magic number two: sex; title: Crick and Watson's model of DNA; title: Replication and growth; title: Cloning of identical forms; title: Sexual choice in human diversity; label: Chapter 13
title: The Long Childhood
pagenum: 411; title: Man, the social solitary; title: Human specificity; title: Specific development of the brain; title: Precision of the hand; title: The speech areas; title: The postponement of decision; title: The mind as an instrument of preparation; title: The democracy of the intellect; title: The moral imagination; title: The brain and the computer: John von Neumann; title: The strategy of values; title: Knowledge is our destiny; title: The commitment of man; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 440; title: Index
pagenum: 443