![]() ![]() She documents the forces for change which brought the human & natural sciences together & gave them shape. The intellectual revolution of the 17th & early 18th eighteenth centuries was the single most formative event in Western history, bringing together the humanities & natural sciences in an unprecedented ferment of conceptual & practical creativity. Lisa Jardine makes clear in this remarkable book that this is a distinction which is both artificial & historically inaccurate. Scientific research is castigated for its inhumane methods & lack of moral responsibility, while art is treated as an enduring source of essential guidance to society's spiritual well-being. Today the 'two cultures' - art and science - have come to be treated as fundamentally opposed, their aims incompatible. ![]()
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