• Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a Polish-British mathematician and philosopher. He was known to friends and professional colleagues...
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  • presented by Polish-British mathematician and historian of science Jacob Bronowski, who also authored a book adaptation. Intended as a series of "personal...
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    past to embody hope. In The Ascent of Man (1973), Jacob Bronowski pointed out similarities between Jacob and Bakhtyar, who lends his name to Iran's Bakhtiari...
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    four daughters of mathematician and polymath, Jacob Bronowski, and the sculptor, Rita Coblentz. Bronowski, who died in 1974 and is best remembered for...
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    unleavened, with the dough allowed to dry on hot stones. Writing in 1973, Jacob Bronowski argued that the combination of wheat and water at Jericho enabled man...
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    mathematics, physics, and other fields. They include George Airy, Jacob Bronowski, Christopher Budd, Kevin Buzzard, Arthur Cayley, Donald Coxeter, Arthur...
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    - Football Coach". Pitt Panthers #H2P. Retrieved April 16, 2024. "Jacob Bronowski - Football Coach". Pitt Panthers #H2P. Retrieved April 16, 2024. "Archie...
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    ISBN 9789048132003. Jacob Bronowski; The Ascent of Man; Angus & Robertson, 1973 ISBN 0-563-17064-6; pp.205-207 Jacob Bronowski; The Ascent of Man; Angus...
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  • 1895) 1971 – Birger Nerman, Swedish archaeologist (b. 1888) 1974 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908) 1976...
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    developer of the polio vaccine; among the founding consultants were Jacob Bronowski and Francis Crick. Construction of the research facilities began in...
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  • his books included other well-known historians like Morris Bishop, Jacob Bronowski, and Maria Bellonci. Later Plumb worked with Huw Wheldon on the BBC...
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    came largely into use some time in antiquity. In The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski states that "The Bakhtiari take their name from a legendary herdsman...
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  • Parkinson stated that one of his most memorable interviews was with Jacob Bronowski in 1973. By his own reckoning, Parkinson interviewed over 2,000 of...
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    Mendeleyev, Bolesław Prus, Ignacy Paderewski, Robert Baden-Powell, Jacob Bronowski (who filmed segments of The Ascent of Man in the mine), the von Unrug...
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  • are the same search, in Coleridge’s phrase, for unity in variety." — Jacob Bronowski "…but for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth...
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    American novelist, playwright and screenwriter known for Flamingo Road Jacob Bronowski, 66, Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist and science historian...
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  • follow-up entitled Up from Dragons. The book is an expansion of the Jacob Bronowski Memorial Lecture in Natural Philosophy which Sagan gave at the University...
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  • youth literature Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974), Polish-British mathematician, biologist, and historian of science Lisa Jardine (née Bronowski) (1944–2015),...
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    "The Harvest of the Seasons", of the documentary The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski. It is put in the context of the development, by the Mongols, of warfare...
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    sometimes described as "Christian" or "Judaeo- Christian" civilization. Jacob Bronowski; The Ascent of Man; Angus & Robertson, 1973 ISBN 0-563-17064-6 Geoffrey...
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    philosopher Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Dawn Foster, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney...
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  • by such figures as Philip Morrison, Richard Lewontin, Alex Comfort, Jacob Bronowski, and more in-depth analyses by Peter Medawar, Robert K. Merton, and...
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    as 'utilitarian' hunting magic to increase the abundance of prey. Jacob Bronowski states, "I think that the power that we see expressed here for the...
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  • by 20th-century writers, such as H. G. Wells and Joseph Campbell. Jacob Bronowski writes that, "the Bible is ... part folklore and part record. History...
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  • ACC Pat Narduzzi 2015 65 50 .565 65 50 .565 Kade Bell Randy Bates Jacob Bronowski SMU Mustangs ACC Rhett Lashlee 2022 19 10 .655 19 10 .655 Rob Likens...
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    pioneer of serialised sensational weekly fiction and 'penny dreadfuls' Jacob Bronowski, scientist, creator of the television series The Ascent of Man James...
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  • episode of 1973 British television documentary The Ascent of Man, when Jacob Bronowski narrates how mankind develops hunting techniques. The Llamasoft video...
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  • following the format established by Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man (both series which he designed and produced as director...
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  • Hogben, Stanton Coit, Joseph Needham, Edward John Thompson (1942), Jacob Bronowski, Fred Hoyle, Edmund Leach, Margaret Knight, Christopher Hill (1989)...
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  • thousands I have done, it would be the one-man show with Professor Jacob Bronowski." He stated that the most remarkable man he ever interviewed was Muhammad...
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