Two Careers across Two Cultures |
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Authors: | Martin Rudwick |
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Institution: | 1. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UKmjsr100@cam.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | Beginning with my recollection of hearing C. P. Snow's ‘Two Cultures’ lecture, I sketch my experience of building two academic careers in succession, first in one of the natural sciences and later in the history of such sciences. I outline both the difficulties and the rewards that I encountered in crossing the alleged gulf between the sciences and the humanities, but also emphasise the diversity of cultures that I experienced within each. I describe my own encounter with the academic culture of continental Europe, within which the concept of a monolithic singular ‘Science’ could be dismissed as an ‘anglophone heresy’, and viewed from which the Two Cultures debate could seem both provincial and redundant. |
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Keywords: | science Wissenschaften visual imagery geological fieldwork palaeontology C P Snow Michael Polanyi Thomas Kuhn Georges Cuvier Charles Lyell |
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