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Author: Paul R. Josephson Publisher: ISBN: 9780691044545 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 351
Book Description
In 1958 construction began on Akademgorodok, a scientific utopian community modeled after Francis Bacon's vision of a "New Atlantis." The city, carved out of a Siberian forest 2,500 miles east of Moscow, was formed by Soviet scientists with Khrushchev's full support. They believed that their rational science, liberated from ideological and economic constraints, would help their country surpass the West in all fields. In a lively history of this city, a symbol of de-Stalinization, Paul Josephson offers the most complete analysis available of the reasons behind the successes and failures of Soviet science--from advances in nuclear physics to politically induced setbacks in research on recombinant DNA. Josephson presents case studies of high energy physics, genetics, computer science, environmentalism, and social sciences. He reveals that persistent ideological interference by the Communist Party, financial uncertainties, and pressures to do big science endemic in the USSR contributed to the failure of Akademgorodok to live up to its promise. Still, a kind of openness reigned that presaged the glasnost of Gorbachev's administration decades later. The openness was rooted in the geographical and psychological distance from Moscow and in the informal culture of exchange intended to foster the creative impulse. Akademgorodok is still an important research center, having exposed physics, biology, sociology, economics, and computer science to new investigations, distinct in pace and scope from those performed elsewhere in the Soviet scientific establishment.
Author: Paul R. Josephson Publisher: ISBN: 9780691044545 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 351
Book Description
In 1958 construction began on Akademgorodok, a scientific utopian community modeled after Francis Bacon's vision of a "New Atlantis." The city, carved out of a Siberian forest 2,500 miles east of Moscow, was formed by Soviet scientists with Khrushchev's full support. They believed that their rational science, liberated from ideological and economic constraints, would help their country surpass the West in all fields. In a lively history of this city, a symbol of de-Stalinization, Paul Josephson offers the most complete analysis available of the reasons behind the successes and failures of Soviet science--from advances in nuclear physics to politically induced setbacks in research on recombinant DNA. Josephson presents case studies of high energy physics, genetics, computer science, environmentalism, and social sciences. He reveals that persistent ideological interference by the Communist Party, financial uncertainties, and pressures to do big science endemic in the USSR contributed to the failure of Akademgorodok to live up to its promise. Still, a kind of openness reigned that presaged the glasnost of Gorbachev's administration decades later. The openness was rooted in the geographical and psychological distance from Moscow and in the informal culture of exchange intended to foster the creative impulse. Akademgorodok is still an important research center, having exposed physics, biology, sociology, economics, and computer science to new investigations, distinct in pace and scope from those performed elsewhere in the Soviet scientific establishment.
Author: Edgar E. Cayce Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312961534 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 244
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The lost civilization of Atlantis is one of the most enduring controversies of all time. Now, armed with visionary Edgar Cayce's psychic clues and the latest findings from archaeology, geology, and anthropology, three scholars have traveled the world in search of proof. Readers join them as they explore the wisdom of Edgar Cayce and discover new evidence about the destruction of Atlantis.
Author: Bronwen Price Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526137380 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 222
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives. Encompassing the fields of cultural history, history of science, literature, and politics, the collection explores The New Atlantis' complex location within Bacon's oeuvre and its negotiations with cultural debates of the past and present. Often regarded as the apotheosis of Bacon's ideas through its depiction of an advanced “scientific” society, it is also read as a seminal work of science fiction.
Author: Reyner Banham Publisher: Mit Press ISBN: 9780262521246 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 266
Book Description
"Let us listen to the counsels of American engineers. But let us beware of American architects!" declared Le Corbusier, who like other European architects of his time believed that he saw in the work of American industrial builders a model of the way architecture should develop. It was a vision of an ideal world, a "concrete Atlantis" made up of daylight factories and grain elevators.In a book that suggests how good Modern was before it went wrong, Reyner Banham details the European discovery of this concrete Atlantis and examines a number of striking architectural instances where aspects of the International Style are anticipated by US industrial buildings.
Author: I. A. Graef Publisher: Epigraph Books ISBN: 9781944037758 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 190
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This historical romance, sci-fi adventure novel of the last days of Atlantis draws many of its ideas from the Russian philosopher, G.I. Gurdjieff's (1872-1949), All & Everything. The lost continent of Atlantis is becoming increasingly relevant as Earth's glaciers melt and the oceans rise.
Author: Bobbie Horton Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 106
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"Atlantis Revisited" is about two modern day teenagers who learn their lineage is linked with that mythical city Atlantis. They are free to return to their homeland at any time but there is a price to pay. The ocean's are polluted, but then a way is made.