Jacob Bronowski was born in Poland in 1908. At the age of 12 he came to England, and within six years was a brilliant mathematics student at Cambridge. During the war he helped to forecast the economic effects of bombing Germany. After many years working for the National Coal Board, he moved to the Salk Institute in 1964 while developing his career as a broadcaster. In 1973, he presented for the BBC the ambitious 13-part series
The Ascent of Man, which made him a household name. He died the following year.
Este clásico del doctor Bronowski traza el desarrollo de la sociedad humana a través de nuestra comprensión de la ciencia. Publicado en 1973 junto con una innovadora serie de televisión de la BBC, es considerado una de las primeras obras de divulgación científica, que ilumina el...
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