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Ingenious Pursuits

Building the Scientific Revolution

Ingenious Pursuits( )
Author: Jardine, Lisa
ISBN:978-0-316-64752-6
Publication Date:Oct 1999
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $54.69
Book Description:

Today the 'two cultures' - art and science - have come to be treated as fundamentally opposed. Scientific research is castigated for its inhumane methods and lack of moral responsibility, while art is treated as an enduring source of essential guidance to society's spiritual well-being. As Lisa Jardine makes clear in this remarkable book, this is a distinction which is both artificial and historically inaccurate. The intellectual revolution of the seventeenth and early-eighteenth...
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Book Details
Pages:464
Detailed Subjects: Science / History
History / Europe / Renaissance
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.3 x 23.4 cm
Book Weight:0.96 Kilograms
Author Biography
Jardine, Lisa (Author)
Lisa Jardine was born in Oxford, England on April 12, 1944. She studied mathematics and English at university receiving a MA in the literary theory of translation from the University of Essex and a PhD from the University of Cambridge with a thesis on the scientific genius of Francis Bacon. She taught English at Warburg Institute, the University of Essex, Cornell University, Cambridge University, and Queen Mary and Westfield College.

She wrote several books during her lifetime including Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse, Ingenious Pursuits, Worldly Goods, Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West, and Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture. Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory won the $75,000 Cundill International Prize in History in 2009. She received a Royal Society medal for popularizing science and was appointed CBE in 2005 for her contribution and commitment to state education. She died of cancer on October 25, 2015 at the age of 71.

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