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Science and the Creative Spirit
Essays on Humanistic Aspects of Science
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Harcourt Brown
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1958
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Men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding. This symposium sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, stressed that it is only in a spirit of disinterested yet sincere evaluation that science and humanism can escape disastrous consequences in the future.
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Brown Harcourt :
Harcourt Brown (1900-1990), Emeritus Professor of French in Brown University, was living in Parry Sound, Ontario up to the time of his death. He had been a member of the History of Science Society since 1934, and is the author of Scientific Organizations in Seventeenth-Century France and editor of Science and the Creative Spirit.
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Foreword
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Why This Book Was Written
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I. Scientific and Humanistic Knowledge in the Growth of Civilization
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II. "Those Scattered Rays Convergent" Science and Imagination in English Literature
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III. Tensions and Anxieties: Science and the Literary Culture of France
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IV. The Creativity of Science
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