Research Catalog

Title

Science in culture / Editors Peter Galison, Stephen R. Graubard, Everett Mendelsohn.

Publication

New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Galison, Peter, 1955-
• Graubard, Stephen Richards
• Mendelsohn, Everett

Description

ix, 246 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Science > Social aspects
• Science and civilization

Note

• "Originally published as a special issue of Daedalus, winter 1998"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Einstein and the Cultural Roots of Modern Science / Gerald Holton 1 -- Americanization of Unity / Peter Galison 45 -- Fear and Loathing of the Imagination in Science / Lorraine Daston 73 -- Misconceptions: Female Imaginations and Male Fantasies in Parental Imprinting / Wendy Doniger, Gregory Spinner 97 -- Consilience Among the Great Branches of Learning / Edward O. Wilson 131 -- Physics and History / Steven Weinberg 151 -- Space Quantization: Otto Stern's Lucky Star / Bretislav Friedrich, Dudley Herschbach 165 -- Eastern Inventions and Western Response / E.H. Gombrich 193 -- Leonardo da Vinci: Art in Science / James Ackerman 207 -- Educational Dilemmas for Americans / Patricia Albjerg Graham 225.

ISBN

0765806738 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2001027724

OCLC

• 46828963
• SCSB-10255797

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library