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1878

Agostino Gemelli was born in Milan (Italy). He graduated in medicine from the University of Pavia and then, in 1903, entered the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor. He continued his studies, immersing himself in biology, physiology, and psychiatry. He founded the University of the Sacred Heart of which he was rector. He was also the first president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences after its refoundation by Pope Pius XI in 1936. An exponent of Italian neo-Thomism, in 1909 he founded the Journal of Neo-Scholastic Philosophy.

1908

Jacob Bronowski was born in Lodz (Poland). He was a Polish mathematician and poet. An advocate of a synthesis between scientific and humanistic thought, he authored Science and Human Values

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On the Human Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge

Introduction to readings, by Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti

R. Rudner, The Scientist qua Scientist Makes Value Judgments (1953)

M Polanyi, On the Intellectual Passions in Scientific Research (1958)

T. Dobzhansky, Humanism and Humanity (1967)

E. Cantore, The Humanistic Character of Science (1977) 

J. Zycinski, Between Mathematics and Transcendence. The Search for the Spiritual Dimension of Scientific Discovery (2005)

    

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