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JCPP/Bronowski/Bronowski/4/3/11/1
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"The Silliman Lectures - 1967- Notes" 1
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- 16 August 1965-October 1968 (Creation)
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(1908 - 1974)
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Comprises manuscript notes (in preparation for lectures and publication) for Bronowski's 6 lectures on 'The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination' given for the Silliman Memorial Lectures at Yale University (1967) including: the proposed outline and sequence of themes, notes from Bronowski's "reflections" notebooks, action points, and lists of sources to consult.
Also includes: an annotated memo by Bronowski on "general considerations on the machinery of the mind" (16 Aug 1965); annotated typescript notes on Gödels theorem; a memo from Sylvia [Hodgson] to Bronowski on Playfair's axiom (9 Dec 1965); and draft pages of some parts of the lecture.
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Box 146:1