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The 1959 Rede Lecture. By C. P. Snow. Price, $1.75. Pp. 58, with notes. Cambridge University Press, 32 E. 57th St., New York, 1960. Also available in paperback edition, price, $1.25.

Robert S. Karsh, M.D., Reviewer

Arch Intern Med. 1961;107(1):141-142.

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Last year's Rede Lecture at Cambridge by C. P. Snow is now available in a slim, thoughtful, and disturbing volume entitled The Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution. It runs a mere 58 pages of direct, insistent, pellucid prose and can be read in one hour. Since it takes so little time to courageously tackle two problems vital to scientists, and since it is modestly priced, this unimposing book may well be the greatest literary bargain of an inflated publishing age.

The "two cultures" in the title are the modern culture of the scientific intellectual and the traditional culture of the literary intellectual. With a foot in each cultural camp, C. P. Snow comes uniquely armed to the fray. He states his own qualifications: "by training I was a scientist; by vocation I was a writer." More specifically, Charles Percy Snow, the scientist, won his M. A. in physics in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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