Knowledge among men: eleven essays on science, culture, and society commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of James Smithson.
By: Introd. by S. Dillon Ripley. [Edited and with introds. by Paul H. Oehser]
Contributors: Smithson, James, 1765-1829.; Oehser, Paul Henry, 1904- ed.
Series: [Smithsonian annual,; 1]
Publisher: Published by Simon and Schuster in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: The perfectibility of intellect, by J. S. Bruner.; title: History as the organization of man's memory, by H. Butterfield.; title: The value of art in an expanding world, by Sir K. M. Clark.; title: Conservation and man's environment, by I. M. Cowan.; title: On being a meter and a half long, by G. E. Hutchinson.; title: Biological and mental evolution, an exercise in analogy, by A. Koestler.; title: Anthropology: its achievements and future, by C. Lévi-Strauss.; title: Technics and the nature of man, by L. Mumford.; title: Physics and man's understanding, by R. Oppenheimer.; title: Intellectual values and the future, by S. E. Toulmin.; title: Knowledge and understanding of the physical universe as determinants of man's progress, by F. L. Whipple.