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The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski: The Life and Ideas of a Popular Science Icon by Timothy Sandefur
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The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski: The Life and Ideas of a Popular Science Icon by Timothy Sandefur

By Stephen R. C. Hicks

Nov 13, 2019
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New York: Prometheus Books, 2019.

384 pp. $25 (hardcover).

How does one reach young minds and inspire them to explore deeply and ascend the great heights of human achievement? In my case, an important early influence was an older man from Eastern Europe, a Jewish man of small physical stature whom I saw only on video. What gripped my young mind was the se…

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