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The ascent of man

By Bronowski, Jacob,. Boston Little, Brown 1973 . 448 p 26 cm.

The ascent of man

By Bronowski, Jacob,. Boston Little, Brown 1973 . 448 p 26 cm.

Generation upon generation.

. Videocassette (VHS)(ca. 55 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. , Science was suspect in conservative Vienna, particularly biological science, but unexpectedly Austria was also the seedbed for one scientific idea in biology that was revolutionary, genetics.

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The hidden structure.

. Videocassette (VHS)(ca. 55 min.) : , Early alchemists in the Middle Ages inspired all those who watched them with a classical experiment. They took the red dye, sinobar, a sulphide of mercury, and heated it. The heat drove off the sulphur and left behind an exquisite pearl of the mysterious silver liquid metal, mercury, to astonish and strike awe into the patron. It was not an important experiment in itself although it happens that sulphur and mercury are the two elements of which the alchemists thought the universe was composed. But it does show one important thing- that fire has always been regarded not as the destroying element but as the transforming element.

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The harvest of the seasons.

. Videocassette (VHS)(ca. 25 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. , The history of man is divided very unequally. There is his biological evolution, or all the steps that separate him from his ape ancestors which occupied some millions of years. Then there is his cultural history, or all that separates him from the few surviving hunting tribes of Africa or food gatherers of Australia. All that enormous cultural gap is crowded into a few thousand years. Only in the last 12,000 years has civilization, as we understand it, taken off.

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Grain in the stone, the.

. Videocassette (VHS)(ca. 25 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. , The Earth has existed for more than 4,000 million years. Through all this time it has been shaped and changed by two kinds of action- the hidden forces within the earth have buckled the strata and lifted and shifted the land masses, and on the surface the erosion of snow and rain and storm, of stream and ocean, of sun and wind, have carved out a natural architecture. Man has also become an architect of his environment but he does not command forces as powerful as those of nature. His method has been selective and probing, an intellectual approach in which action depends on understanding.

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The origins of knowledge and imagination /

By Bronowski, Jacob,. New Haven : Yale University Press 1978 . xiii, 144 p. 0300021925

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The common sense of science /