File 8 - "Science and Human Values - Correspondence"

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JCPP/Bronowski/Bronowski/5/5/53/8

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"Science and Human Values - Correspondence"

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  • 8 September 1955-11 November 1963 (Creation)

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Subjects include: publishing Bronowski's 'Science and Human Values' lectures as articles in Universities Quarterly (journal) and The Nation magazine, responses to the content of the articles, requests for permission to reprint or quote from 'Science and Human Values', and publishing 'Science and Human Values' as a book in the United Kingdom.

Correspondents include Kenneth Clark, Professor J L Montrose (Queen's University, Belfast), Kathleen Nott, University Press Cambridge (declining to publish 'Science and Human Values' book), Herbert Read, Professor Egon Sharpe Pearson (University College London) on amending a reference to his father (Karl Pearson) in 'Science and Human Values', Michael Polanyi, and Gilbert Seldes (The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania).

Also includes: a draft preface and series of "notes" by Bronowski [to form part of publication of 'Science and Human Values']; correspondence on a reference to an astronomer called Joannes Brunowski in Galileo's Dialogue; and a copy of a talk by Egon Sharpe Pearson on 'Some Incidents in the Early History of Biometry and Statistics, 1890-94 (given to a Princeton seminar, Apr-May 1961).

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      Box 81:2

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