Abstract By Parvusvox
Title: The Classics in Science
By: Derek Gjertsen
Published By:
Lilian Barber Press, INC
Box 232
New York, Ny 10163
(c) 1984 Derek Gjertsen
The results of this effort are a culling of post Renaissance Scientific Benchmarks. They include the benchmarks in realized growth of Science History and Industry which has led to this, the Age of The Mind, in which we now exist. Once again I shall endeavor to show this
Scientists Writing Strengths or the quality of their own Science by firstly, checking into their Preface/ Introduction/ First Chapter. I found that Mr. Gjersten concerned about the intricacies of the Biographical literary story telling that include the
Scientist''s assumptions and their impact on the professed discipline. This narrow audience response to a particular concern is equivalent is like the Nielson Ratings on a scientists life works. This also becomes what''s known as the annals of Scientific History Writings. He refers to even more ancient Science where the writers and sometimes ghost writers were often persecuted. Don''t shoot me, I''m only the messenger. Let us start with his Introduction. In era when ‘bloggers and news people are targets of, and imprisoned by, spiritual extremists, this book''s null-hypothesis is that the writing of the History of Science is the most literary of various writing disciplines --- rings especially true.
Next, by looking for novel experiments or ‘wordsmithing methods I check their focal points. I noted that the author thinks that the Eminent Scientist always tries to write, or dictate, so succinctly that no one can challenge the content of their findings. But some scientist, somewhere, will always be doing something similar. So, how do they credit each other if they are competitors? Unfortunately, some only mimic, and others dogmatize the findings of the authentic scientist. But occasionally, they work together and speed the process up. Look at how they sped up the Human Genome Project by teaming up the competitors. Or, you can look at how fast the 3rd Reich materialized with just a little paleo-acheology about finding their true Aryan Ancestors. The devil is in the details. Mr. Gjersten advances this notion of there may be Literary Benchmarks in Science Writings that rival all writings? The fact that there''s a Abstracting Market now that has at least an entertainment value to it; and maybe more, salutes the kernels of truth of our fore - fathers and mothers. Further, some manuscripts of science have been re-published in other languages eighteen-hundred (1800) after they were first published. Also compare the high numbers of international persons other than US citizens, who aspire to get the PhDs from US Universities. Origin of the Species is continually being translated. As of the writing of this book, there 326 editions of it-- but more importantly, he trivial can be produced. Thank you Andy Warhol! Finally checking in the Authors end notes or other material in the back of the book to find out how they view their own results. Further, I do this last thing just to see if the Author remains true to how he or she set it up. In this review you can see who the responsible parties are for many of the present day scientific and engineering articulations we see around us, today. You can see the Great Taxonomist''s founding of the term Homo sapiens sapiens. Further, you study Darwin in is later years and how he backed off on Natural Selection that he proposed in his Life''s work. In his section called Afterward, Mr. Gjersten compared the delayed reaction to publish by scientists of the mid and late 1800s to the rush to publish of earlier oneus and Galileo of the renaissance. These earlier ones were saying that their Renaissance Architecture, all other Humanities and Sciences were just as good, as or better than any or all of the Ancient''s similar materials. In the late 1800s you had ''Country Ladies and Gents pursuing classic science writing like the artists had done it the previous century. Shakespeare was a Country Gent. This all begs the question, what will each of us do with what we know in our personal quests? Will it be for good or for ill? How will History Record it????
This book is an important book as a paradigm generator and tracker of science program status.