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The ascent of man / J. Bronowski.
Penn Museum Library Q175 .B7918 1974
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bronowski, Jacob, 1908-1974, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Science--History.
- History.
- Human beings.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Zinman, Michael (donor) (Zinman copy)
- Sawyer, Roland (bookplate) (Zinman copy)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 448 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown and Company, [1974]
- Summary:
- Traces the development of science and the discoveries that have made man unique among animal species.
- Contents:
- Lower than the angels
- The harvest of the seasons
- The grain in the stone
- The hidden structure
- The music of the spheres
- The starry messanger
- The majestic clockwork
- The drive for power
- The ladder of creation
- World within world
- Knowledge or certainty
- Generation upon generation
- The long childhood.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 440-442) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is second printing.
- Penn Libraries Zinman copy has dust jacket.
- Penn Libraries Zinman copy is third printing.
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1975".
- Potok Collection copy is "Third Printing".
- Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.
- ISBN:
- 0316109304
- 9780316109307
- 0316569402
- 9780316569408
- 0316109339
- 9780316109338
- OCLC:
- 763593
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