The Penguin Poetry Library: William Blake
A Selection of Poems and Letters
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Jacob Bronowski Book order (chronological)
January 18, 1908 – August 22, 1974
A British scientist of Polish-Jewish origin, his work bridged mathematics and biology, exploring humanity's journey through scientific endeavor. He is best remembered for a seminal television series that examines the history of human progress via science and innovation. Through meticulous research and an ability to connect diverse fields, he illuminated the crucial role of imagination and symbolic language in the advancement of knowledge. His insights into human nature and intellectual products continue to resonate.
The Visionary Eye
Essays in the Arts, Literature, and Science
Selected by Piero E. Ariotti in collaboration with Rita Bronowski
The Western Intellectual Tradition
From Leonardo to Hegel
The Ascent of Man
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Originally developed as a television series, this work by an historian, inventor, mathematician and leader in the modern movement of scientific humanism traces the growth of science through the great monuments of human invention
Jacob Bronowski was, with Kenneth Clarke, the greatest popularizer of serious ideas in Britain between the mid 1950s and the early 1970s. He isolates three creative ideas that have been central to science: the idea of order, the idea of causes and the idea of chance.
Science and Human Values was originally a lecture by Jacob Bronowski at MIT in 1953.
