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...Ascent of Man, Bronowski...
...card and numerical inventions have become classics on the magicians' and mentalists' circuit. His "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American is one of the few bridges over C.P. Snow's famous "gulf of mutual incomprehension" that lies between the technical and literary cultures. The late Jacob Bronowski (The Ascent of Man) was a devotee; Poet W.H. Auden constantly quoted from Gardner's work. In his novel Ada, Vladimir Nabokov pays a twinkling tribute by introducing one Martin Gardiner, whom he calls "an invented philosopher...
...Ascent of Man, Bronowski...
...Ascent of Man, Bronowski...
...Ascent of Man is determinedly antiromantic. Stability, that homeliest of virtues, was for him the one essential condition for civilization's great leaps forward. His insistence on this point forms valuable corrective to the more dramatic visions of historical development that frequently titillate us today. Bronowski died last August of a heart attack at age 66. The Ascent of Man is an excellent introduction as well as a last testament by one of the most valuable travelers between the scientific and the literary Cultures...