Knowledge among men: eleven essays on science, culture, and society commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of James Smithson.
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| Corporate author / creator: | Smithsonian Institution |
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| Imprint: | New York, Published by Simon and Schuster in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution, Washington [1966] |
| Description: | 191 p. 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | [Smithsonian annual, 1] |
| Subject: | Smithson, James, -- 1765-1829 Civilization. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2888531 |
Table of 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, an exercise in analogy, by A. Koestler
- Anthropology: its achievements and future, by C. Lévi-Strauss
- Technics and the nature of man, by L. Mumford
- Physics and man's understanding, by R. Oppenheimer
- Intellectual values and the future, by S. E. Toulmin
- Knowledge and understanding of the physical universe as determinants of man's progress, by F. L. Whipple.