The Ascent of Man
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| The Ascent of Man, by Jacob Bronowski. |
One book that had a big impact on me when I was young is Jacob Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man. The book is based on a television series by the same name, broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation. You could call The Ascent of Man a history of science, but it is a rich and philosophical history, covering all the sciences. The book was published in 1973, so I probably first read it in high school.
Bronowski is an example of a type of physicist who we encounter often in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology: one who made the transition to biology. He writes in the book’s foreword:
There has been a deep change in the temper of science in the last twenty years: the focus of attention has shifted from the physical to the life sciences. As a result, science is drawn more and more to the study of individuality. But the interested spectator is hardly aware yet how far-reaching the effect is in changing the image of man that science moulds. As a mathematician trained in physics, I too would have been unaware, had not a series of lucky chances taken me into the life sciences in middle age. I owe a debt for the the good fortune that carried me into two seminal fields of science in one lifetime; and though I do not know to whom the debt is due, I conceived The Ascent of Man in gratitude to repay it.
The book is well written and beautifully illustrated. I highly recommend it.
The Ascent of Man, Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH7SJf8BnBI
Source: http://hobbieroth.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-ascent-of-man.html
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