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Bridgman- Bronowski, Jacob. The Logic of Experiment. 1952-
Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 - 22 August 1974) was a Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor. He is best remembered as the presenter and writer of the 1973 BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man, and the accompanying book. As a mathematics student at Jesus College, Cambridge, Bronowski co-edited - with William Empson - the literary periodical Experiment, which first appeared in 1928. Bronowski would pursue this sort of dual activity, in both the mathematical and literary worlds, throughout his professional life. He was also a strong chess player, earning a half-blue while at Cambridge and composing numerous chess problems for the British Chess Magazine between 1926 and 1970.[2] He received a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1935, writing a dissertation in algebraic geometry. From 1934 to 1942 he taught mathematics at the University College of Hull. For a time in the 1930s he lived near Laura Riding and Robert Graves in Majorca. During the Second World War Bronowski worked in operations research, and afterward became Director of Research for the National Coal Board in the UK. Following his experiences as an official observer of the after-effects of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, he turned to biology, as did his friend Leo Szilard and many other physicists of that time, to better understand the nature of violence. Bronowski was an associate director of the Salk Institute from 1964. Jacob Bronowski married Rita Coblentz in 1941.[3] The couple had four children, all daughters, the eldest being the British academic Lisa Jardine and another being the filmmaker Judith Bronowski. In 1950, Bronowski was given the Taung child's fossilized skull and asked to try, using his statistical skills, to combine a measure of the size of the skull's teeth with their shape in order to discriminate them from the teeth of apes. Work on this turned his interests towards the human biology of humanity's intellectual products. In 1967 Bronowski delivered the six Silliman Memorial Lectures at Yale University and chose as his subject the role of imagination and symbolic language in the progress of scientific knowledge. Transcripts of the lectures were published posthumously in 1978 as The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination and remain in print. He first became familiar to the British public through appearances on the BBC television version of The Brains Trust in the late 1950s, but is better known for his thirteen part series The Ascent of Man (1973) about the history of human beings through scientific endeavour. This project was intended to parallel art historian Kenneth Clark's earlier "personal view" series Civilisation (1969) which had covered cultural history. During the making of The Ascent of Man, Bronowski was interviewed by the popular British chat show host Michael Parkinson who once recounted that Bronowski's description of a visit to Auschwitz - he had lost many family members during the Nazi era - was described by Parkinson as one of his most memorable interviews. Jacob Bronowski died in 1974 of a heart attack in East Hampton, NY a year after The Ascent of Man was completed, and was buried in the western side of London's Highgate Cemetery, near the entrance. (Wikipedia)

Stapled offprint. 8 pages. From the Offprint-collection of P.W.Bridgman. Inscribed by Bronowski: "Prof. P. Bridgman with compliments - J. Bronowski".

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Albers, Josef: On Art and Expression. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Literary Society, 1960.
* Interessantes Konvolut aus 6 Kleinschriften mit Erstdrucken. - ** Aus der Bibliothek von Inge Aicher-Scholl und Otl Aicher. - - Der Separatabdruck aus der japanischen Zeitschrift am rechten Rand oben angefranst ohne Bildverlust. - Sonst gut erhaltene Exemplare. - Insgesamt 6 Broschüren. -
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S. 49-54 auf Kunstdruckpapier. Mit 1 doppelseit. Abb. - OGeh. - (= Separatabdruck aus: The Yale Literary Magazine). - Dabei: Albers, Josef: Present and / or past. 4°. 4 S. Mit 1 Abb. Gefaltet. (= Reprinted from Design, April, 1946). - Dabei: Albers, Josef: Abstract Presentational. 4 S. Mit 1 Abb. N. d. (= Reprint from the Book: American Abstract Artists). - Dabei: Albers, Josef: Art Feature. 12 S. auf Kunstdruckpapier. Mit 8 ganzseit. Abb. OGeh. (=Reprinted from New Mexiko Quarterly, University of Albuquerque, N. M., Winter 1953). - Dabei: The World of Joseph Albers. O. O. u. J. 4°. 10 npag. S. Mit 2 Schwarzweißfotos, 21 (1 farb.) Abb. OGeh. (= Aus einer japanischen Zeitschrift). - Dabei: Charlot, Jean: Nature and the Art of Josef Albers. S. 189-196 auf Kunstdruckpapier. Mit 7 Abb. OKart. (= Reprinted from College Art Journal, Spring 1956). -

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Snyder, Gary. Plum Blossom Poem - Beneath and Eye the Distant Hills, your body (in Yale Literary Magazine) with handwritten postcard by Gary Snyder. Yale, 1965.

8°. 81 pages. Printed Wrappers. Near fine. / Snyder wrote to YLM-Editor in chief Davis S. Stevens Schaff: "Dear David, YLM looks pretty good, but I'm less than pleased with the typo on the title of my second poem in the table of contents - can it be fixed if you print another orinting ? Gary"

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Edgar Stephenson FURNISS Jr. A New State Faces a Difficult World: The Position of Turkey Today, Yale Literary Magazine 1940 ISBN: B0030ULFWY
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SCARCE SLENDER SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT; FAINT AGE-TONING TO PAPER. ONLY SLIGHT WEAR TO COVER, WITH FAINT AGE-TONING. A CLEAN & SOLID COPY. Paperback

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