The Ascent Of Man

The Ascent Of Man

Article Index
The Ascent Of Man
Lower than the Angels
The Harvest of the Seasons
The Grain in the Stone
The Hidden Structure
Music of the Spheres
The Starry Messenger
The Majestic Clockwork
The Drive for Power
The Ladder of Creation
World within World
Knowledge or Certainty
Generation upon Generation
The Long Childhood
All Pages
Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a British mathematician and biologist of Polish-Jewish origin. Just recently, I have started watching a documentary he made called, The Ascent Of Man on DVD. I have only finished watching the second episode and it is turning out to be a wonderful documentary. It is very powerful, very insightful and I want everyone to watch it. I found the links for it in Google so you can preview it for yourself. I have orderred them according to how they were titled in the series. 
  1. Lower than the Angels — Evolution of man from proto-ape to 400,000 years ago.
  2. The Harvest of the Seasons — Early human migration, agriculture and the first settlements, war.
  3. The Grain in the Stone — Tools, development of architecture and sculpture.
  4. The Hidden Structure — Fire, metals and alchemy.
  5. Music of the Spheres — The language of numbers.
  6. The Starry Messenger — Galileo's universe.
  7. The Majestic Clockwork — Explores Kepler and Newton's laws.
  8. The Drive for Power — The Industrial Revolution.
  9. The Ladder of Creation — Darwin and Wallace's ideas on the origin of species.
  10. World within World — The story of the periodic table.
  11. Knowledge or Certainty — Physics and the clash of absolute knowledge, the oppressive state, and its misgivings realizing the result of its terrible outcome.
  12. Generation upon Generation — Life, genetics, and the cloning of identical forms.
  13. The Long Childhood — Bronowski's treatise on the commitment of man.

 



 

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