The Western Intellectual Tradition (PocketBook)

‘The steam engine helped to shape the modern world at least as much Napoleon and Adam Smith’-Sri Charles Snow.

In the study of the development of ideas from the Renaissance to the opening of the nineteenth century Dr. Bronowski, who is as well-known as C. P. Snow as an integrator of science and the humanities, has collaborated with a distinguished American historian and philosopher. They have tried to see all history, and certainly all intellectual history, as a unity, with religion influencing government, science affecting religion, technology shaping society, philosophy changing the art, and each playing on all the others in a complex and evolving pattern in which the mind of man has been supreme.