Happy 100th Birthday, Jacob Bronowski

By Timothy Sandefur

January 18, 2008 19:24 MST

Today is the 100th birthday of one of my greatest intellectual heroes, Jacob Bronowski, the mathematician, poet, philosopher, historian, and author of The Ascent of Man. I paid tribute to him a few years ago on the Thumb. I also wrote about him for _Liberty_magazine.

Here is a famous scene from The Ascent: the most moving in this whole marvelous show.

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