Jacob Bronowski

Jacob Bronowski (January 18 1908, Lód?, Poland - August 22 1974, East Hampton, New York, USA) was the presenter of the BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man which inspired Carl Sagan's series.

Books by Jacob Bronowski

• The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
• The Poet's Defence
• William Blake and the Age of Revolution ISBN 0710072775 (hardcover) ISBN 0710072783 (pbk.)
• The Ascent of Man ISBN 0613124634 (the book of the BBC TV series The Ascent of Man)
• The Face of Violence
• The Common Sense of Science
• Science and Human Values
• Insight (the book of the BBC TV series Insight)
• The Identity of Man
• Nature and Knowledge: The Philosophy of Contemporary Science
• William Blake, 1757-1827; a man without a mask
• The Western Intellectual Tradition
• A Sense of the Future