Newton, Maxwell, Marx: Spirit, Freedom, and the Scientific Vision

Features Newton, Maxwell, and Marx as champions of a scientific vision that leads to intellectual freedom and human emancipation. This title points toward a vision of science, common to these three thinkers, as a powerful means of attaining human freedom, material, intellectual, and even spiritual.

About the author

Thomas King Simpson (of Saratoga Springs, NY) is Tutor Emeritus at St. John¿s College in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has taught at the American University at Cairo and is a cöfounder of The Key School in Annapolis, Maryland. He was educated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, St. John¿s College, Wesleyan University, and the Johns Hopkins University, where in 1968 he received his doctorate in the history of science. His background also includes engineering and the classics.

Summary

Features Newton, Maxwell, and Marx as champions of a scientific vision that leads to intellectual freedom and human emancipation. This title points toward a vision of science, common to these three thinkers, as a powerful means of attaining human freedom, material, intellectual, and even spiritual.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas K. Simpson, Thomas K. Simpson
• Publisher: Green Lion Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2012
• EAN: 9781888009378
• ISBN: 978-1-888009-37-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 450 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries