Knowledge among men; eleven essays on science, culture, and society commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of James Smithson.Introd
[Book]
/ by S. Dillon Ripley. Edited and with introds. by Paul H. Oehser
New York
: Published by Simon and Schuster in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution, Washington
, 1966.
191 p. ; 24 cm
Language: انگلیسی
Includes bibliographies
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Contents.- The perfectibility of intellect, by J. S. Bruner.- History as the organization of man's memory, by H. Butterfield.- The value of art in an expanding world, by Sir K. M. Clark.- Conservation and man's environment, by I. M. Cowan.- On being a meter and a half long, by G. E. Hutchinson.- Biological and mental evolution, anoexercise in anay by A. Koestler.- Anthropollgy: its achievements and future, by C. Levl - Strauss.-technics and the nature of man, by I. Munford.- physics and man's understanding, by R. oppenheimer.- Intelle ctual values and the future, by S. E. Toulmin.- Knowledge and understanding of the physical universe as determinants of man's progress, by F. L. Whip