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Science and Imagination

Science and Imagination

Paperback

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ISBN10: 1916572995
ISBN13: 9781916572997
Publisher: Consilience Media
Published: Jul 4 2024
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Revised and expanded second edition.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world. (Albert Einstein) Hugh Falconer (1808-1865), botanist, geologist, palaeontologist, a famous polymath of the Victorian era, was a highly visionary scientist. Without the gift of imagination, all his profound knowledge of anatomy would not have sufficed to envision an entire mammoth when, in 1846, he studied no more than the fragment of a tooth. This fragment had been sent to him by his colleague Charles Lyell. Falconer's discovery entered the history of science as Columbian mammoth, while other aspects of his work, including his discussions with Charles Darwin on Creationism and evolution, still await proper documentation.

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