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...Karl S. Weimar Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 THE SCIENTIST AND SOCIETY A STUDY OF THREE MODERN PLAYS By KARLS. WEIMAR C. P. Snow’s T;~loCultTtres rtnd the Scientific Revolution (1959) attracted so much...

...George R. Havens Donald S. Schier. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1941. Pp. x + 229. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 REVIEWS Louis-Bertrand Castel, Anti-Newtonian Scientist. By DONALDS. Schier. Cedar Rapids, Iowa : The Torch...

... are not new. A century ago a coterie of British novelists, scientists, and social theorists writing during the interwar period became preoccupied with the possibility of human extinction and believed that such a fate might be avoided by taking human civilization to the stars. Watching these intellectual...

... strong affinities with the work of such figures as the cultural theorist Oswald Spengler. Offered as an alternative to what Kerényi considered the scientistic preoccupations rampant in modern academe, this vision is also clearly at odds with most later media-historical research and its interest...

...William Cadbury Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 ON BEING LITERARY THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. WATSON By WILLIAMCADBURY The scientists did not quite know what to make of James 1). Watson’s Double...

..., superstition, and the various pseudo-sciences, and seeks to emphasize the unscientific elements in the thinking of even the foremost scientists of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This bias prevents his work from being an adequate account of the history of science-which, indeed, its author...

..., and this will not be an easy task. Although social scientists may see new methods as a step toward the “full hermeneutic complexity and nuance” of their texts (Mohr, Wagner-Pacifici, and Breiger 2015 ), they are still (by literary standards) incapable of capturing the subtleties of any single work. While our discipline...

.... But they ceased to believe that certain knowledge was attainable in any realm below the mathematical. Observation could produce nothing better than “moral certainty”; analysis could not produce even so much. Far from being alarmed by this, the scientists argued that “moral certainty” was the best...

... in meteorology offered new ways to coordinate the working of weather with the movement of geopolitical forces, thus mediating a world at war. Crucially, scientists and poets together produced a georgics of the sky, fusing the work of war and that of weather to highlight questions of mediation, especially...

... land reclamation. He remains a scientist, who swears by innovations, and the devil well knows what profit he may elicit from that. Goethe clearly envisioned the second part of Faust as being distinct from the first (uon dem ersten durchaus uerschieden) and selfcontained (urnjm,m sich...

... is that of “literary history” as contrasted by the author with “political science.” A political scientist should accordingly derive somewhat less intellectual nourishment from the work than a stu- dent of eighteenth-century literature, but this particular political scientist is willing to acknowledge...

... depend on identifying existing rules and then valuing the strange and surprising exceptions that resist those rules. This focus on the errant detail might be what best differentiates the humanities from the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Scientists...

..., 1944. Fifty cents each. This new collection should prove useful to philosophers, political scientists, historians, and even natural scientists, as well as to stu- dents of literature. It aims to make generally available important and significant texts not readily accessible elsewhere. Main...

.... For the most part, Bacon’s rhetorical view exerted little influ- ence upon theories of prose in the latter half of the seventeenth cen- tury. It is true that the “naked” style which he advocated for scien- tific discourse was taken over by the scientists who formed the Royal Society, was extended...

..., at first glance difficult to defend. Where does the monumental work of historians and social scientists of Algeria figure in this account? But Jarvis’s expansive understanding of the literary, which includes anticolonial manifestos and testimonial writings by survivors of torture, and her insistence...

... Galileo’s Letter to Landucci Virginia Galilei, a younger sister of the scientist, in 1591. Later in that year, on July 2, the scientist’s father died (XIX, 109). He had never been prosperous and, as was noted by the earliest biographer of Galileo, he left no wealth to be inherited...

... the impact of science on Western culture or hail it, we desire to understand it. Professor Arthos’ work is in this field of inquiry; he attempts to demonstrate a very close relationship between the thought of the scientist and the language of the poet. ,4ccording to Whitehead, “Mathematics...

... Science” (pp. 61-82) J. R. Kantor, professor of psychology, illuminates the old dispute concerning Goethe’s merits as a scientist and aligns himself vigorously with the prevailing position of recogniz- ing Goethe as an extremely competent scientist of wide range whose rejection...

... of philosophy in the seventeenth century after the doldrums of the Renaissance sprang as much from questions raised by scientists as from any innate vitality of metaphysical thought. Bacon and Descartes, and after them Locke and Lei bniz, are hardly conceivable without the new scientific outlook...

... certain responses from the audience is not unlike the laboratory in which the scientist constructs fundamentally aesthetic forms (experiments) to elicit certain responses from laboratory rats.36 So the scientist who refuses to recognize his role as artist...