File 7 - "Material and notes for past and future programmes"

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Comprises: reprints and press cuttings of articles by others (some sent to Bronowski by the authors, some annotated) on subjects including clockwork, the Lunar Society, twins, probability, simplicity, bats, and Hiroshima; notes and correspondence on "The 12 major discoveries since 1945" [for an article in the New York Times]; correspondence with Isaiah Berlin about a radio talk by Berlin about [Jean-Jacques] Rousseau; correspondence with Frances A Yates (Warburg Institute, London) about the ideas of [Giordano] Bruno on planetary orbits, Yates' articles about Bruno, and about the School of Night and Elizabethan melancholy; correspondence with M C Bradbook (Girton College, Cambridge) about her work about the School of Night; correspondence answering a question about astronomy with an article entitled 'On the Relics of Supernovae' (by W H Ramsey, University of Manchester); correspondence with compilers of the Guinness Book of Records about the speed of light; notes about a cancelled programme (number 7, series 2) from 'New Horizon' television series entitled 'Taking a Risk'; notes on a discussion about 'The Prospect before Us' with Aldous and Julian Huxley from 'New Horizon'; and notes on themes and ideas for the 2nd series of 'New Horizon'.

Also include press cuttings of a photograph of Bronowski on 'Insight' television programme, 'The Birth of Matter' by Bronowski (Observer, 5 Dec 1954) and a small article entitled 'Mile: 8 seconds off record in 1970, says Bronowski' about an appearance on the 'Brains Trust' television programme.