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- 24 June 1966-4 September 1973 (Creation)
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Includes correspondence with: Donald Tyerman (The Economist) asking Bronowski to consider Hodder and Stoughton as publishers for his Silliman ('The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination') and Mellon ('Art as a Mode of Knowledge') lectures; individuals at Yale University including Arthur Galston on subjects including the response to Bronowski's lectures, tapes of the lectures, publication of the lectures and of the Mellon lectures on 'Art as a Mode of Knowledge'; George Bixler (Chemical & Engineering News) sending Bronowski an editorial quoting one of his Silliman lectures; Horizon [magazine], New York, asking for transcripts of Bronowski's lectures; and Alexander Feldman (Rhode Island) who had listened to Bronowski's Silliman lectures on 'The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination' as a broadcast on WGBH-FM radio.
Also includes: a copy of a letter to Princeton University Press on the possibility of transferring publication of Bronowski's Silliman lectures; a leaflet on 'Imperfect Knowledge' by Joseph Agassi; a photocopy of "notes for an essay on axiomatics"; a transcript of Yale Reports radio programme on 'The Human Animal' featuring Bronowski and Arthur Galston (29 Oct 1967); and an annotated Yale University press release about Bronowski speaking on 'Yale Reports' radio programme.
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Duplicates of material in Bronowski 5/1/20/2 & 4 have been removed from this file.