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Experimental Astronomy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1970)
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Experimental Astronomy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1970)
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 18
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Socrates knew all that was known by his contemporaries. But already
in the Middle Ages it was becoming difficult for a single man to
have a truly encyclopedic view of all human knowledge. It is true
that Pico della Mirandola, Pius II, Leonardo da Vinci, and several
other great minds were thoroughly in possession of considerable
know ledge, and knew all that one could know, except no doubt for
some techniques. The encyclopedists of the 18th century had to be
content with an admirable survey: they could not go into details,
and their work is a collective one, the specialized science of each
collaborator compensating for the insufficiencies of the others. We
know very well that our science of today is a science of
specialists. Not only is it impossible for anyone person to
assimilate the totality of human knowledge, it is impossible even
to know ones own discipline perfectly thoroughly. Each year the
presses of science pro duce a frightening quantity of printed
paper. Even in very limited fields, new journals are created every
day, devoted to extremely specialized, often very narrowly defined
subjects. It is indeed evident that in a field whose scope extends
well beyond astronomical or astrophysical research, it is
materially impossible to be informed of everything, even with the
richest of libraries at hand.
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