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Science in Culture (Hardcover)
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Twenty-five years ago, Gerald Holton's Thematic Origins of
Scientific Thought introduced a wide audience to his ideas. Holton
argued that from ancient times to the modern period, an astonishing
feature of innovative scientific work was its ability to hold,
simultaneously, deep and opposite commitments of the most
fundamental sort. Over the course of Holton's career, he embraced
both the humanities and the sciences. Given this background, it is
fitting that the explorations assembled in this volume reflect both
individually and collectively Holton's dual roots. In the opening
essay, Holton sums up his long engagement with Einstein and his
thematic commitment to unity. The next two essays address this
concern. In historicized form, Lorraine Daston returns the question
of the scientific imagination to the Enlightenment period when both
sciences and art feared imagination. Daston argues that the split
whereby imagination was valued in the arts and loathed in the
sciences is a nineteenth-century divide. James Ackerman on Leonardo
da Vinci meshes perfectly with Daston's account, showing a form of
imaginative intervention where it is irrelevant to draw analogies
between art and science. Historians of religion Wendy Doniger and
Gregory Spinner pursue the imagination into the bedroom with
literary-theological representations. Science, culture, and the
imagination also intersect with biologist Edward Wilson and
physicist Steven Weinberg. Both tackle the big question of the
unity of knowledge and worldviews from a scientific perspective
while art historian Ernst Gombrich does the same from the
perspective of art history. To emphasize the nitty-gritty of
scientific practice, chemists Bretislav Fredrich and Dudley
Herschback provide a remarkable historical tour at the boundary of
chemistry and physics. In the concluding essay, historian of
education Patricia Albjerg Graham addresses pedagogy head-on. In
these various reflections on science, art, literature, philosophy,
and education, this volume gives us a view in common: a deep and
abiding respect for Gerald Holton's contribution to our
understanding of science in culture. Peter Galison is Mallinckrodt
Professor of History of Science and of physics at Harvard
University. Stephen R. Graubard is editor of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences and its journal, Daedalus, and professor of
history emeritus at Brown University. Everett Mendelsohn is
director of the History of Science Program at Harvard University.
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