Volume 54, Number 8 · May 10, 2007
The Dream of Scientific Brotherhood
By Freeman Dyson
The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scientific Revolution
by John Gribbin
Overlook, 336 pp., $27.95
Growing up as a child in England, I absorbed at an early age the notion that different countries had different skills. The Germans had Bach and Beethoven, the Spanish had Velázquez and El Greco, the French had Monet and Gauguin, and we had Newton and Darwin. Science was the thing the English were good at. This notion was reinforced when I began to read children's books of that period, glorifying the achievements of our national heroes, Faraday and Maxwell and Rutherford.
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