Science and Human Values vs Science in history: Which Should You Read?

Science and Human Values Jacob Bronowski · 1956 ★★★★☆ 4.1 119 pages · ≈ 2 h 12 m · Moderate

“ON a fine November day in 1945, late in the afternoon, I was landed on an airstrip in southern Japan.”

Science and Human Values was originally a lecture by Jacob Bronowski at MIT in 1953. Published five years later, it opens unforgettably with Bronowski's description of Nagasaki in 1945: 'a bare waste of ashes', making…

Science in history J. D. Bernal · 1954 1008 pages · ≈ 18 h 40 m · Challenging

J. D. Bernal's monumental work, Science in History, was the first full attempt to analyse the reciprocal relations of science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the flint hand-axe to the hydrogen…