Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (252 p.))
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511523007
Content:
This collection of essays by a group of leading authorities is addressed primarily to a non-specialist readership, with the aim of introducing people and achievements associated with the University of Cambridge over the past 150 years. It explains, in simple terms, what has been done in a wide variety of fields – including philosophy (Ray Monk on Russell, Peter Hacker on Wittgenstein, Robert Grant on Oakeshott); economics (Geoffrey Harcourt on Keynes); anthropology (Ernest Gellner on Frazer); the study of English (Stephen Heath on Richards and Leavis). Some who have made important contributions to Cambridge science describe their own work and discoveries - Max Perutz in molecular biology; Antony Hewish in radioastronomy; Simon Conway Morris in palaeontology. As a whole the book offers an intellectual portrait of many of modern Cambridge's most notable achievements which will be of interest to a broad range of readers within the University and far beyond
Content:
The effects of a broken home: Bertrand Russell and Cambridge / Ray Monk -- I.A. Richards, F.R. Leavis and Cambridge English / Stephen Heath -- Emily Davies, the Sidgwicks and the education of women in Cambridge / Gillian Sutherland -- Radioastronomy in Cambridge / Antony Hewish -- Three Cambridge prehistorians / Colin Renfrew -- John Maynard Keynes / Geoffrey Harcourt -- Mathematics in Cambridge and beyond/ Jeremy Gray -- James Stuart: engineering, philanthropy and radical politics / Paul McHugh -- The Darwins in Cambridge / Richard Keynes -- How the Burgess Shale came to Cambridge; and what happened / Simon Conway Morris -- Ludwig Wittgenstein / P.M.S. Hacker -- 'Brains in their fingertips': physics at the Cavendish Laboratory 1880-1940 / Jeffrey Hughes -- J.N. Figgis and the history of political thought in Cambridge / Mark Goldie -- Molecular biology in Cambridge / M.F. Perutz -- James Frazer and Cambridge anthropology / Ernest Gellner -- Michael Oakeshott / Robert Grant
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521454056
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521456258
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cambridge minds Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994 ISBN 0521454050
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521456258
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521454056
Language:
English
Keywords:
University of Cambridge
;
Geschichte 1840-1990
;
Biografie
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511523007
URL:
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