Mind in Science

by Richard Langton Gregory

Book Overview

PART I: FORGING SCIENCE FROM MYTH 1 - MIND IN MYTH * Babylonian * Egyptian * Greek * Modern Accounts of Myth 2 - TOOLS THAT CHALLENGED MYTH - Hand Tools - Mind Tools 3 - LESSONS FROM MACHINES 4 -... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521243076
• ISBN13: 9780521243070
• Release Date: August 1981
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What a mind in the history of how we think

The history of thought is too often streamed into philosophy or science with a bit of psychology thrown in. This book is a jump from the academic mainstream and fascinates by a journey from the easliest recorded thinkers in the first known writing in Sumeria, through the gnomen (the Sumerian word for the finger on the sundial that measures time) to the knowledge and philosophy of Ancient Greece (they had cogwheels and gears) through classical times to the present. This is a history of science from a philosphical perspective, a reflection on the recorded mind of man. Richard Gregory is a philosopher, a scientist and a man who knows as much as anyone knows how the brain works. A tour de force, this book will change you by captivating and entertaining as well as profoundly altering your mind.