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William Blake, the Single Vision, and Newton's Sleep A History of Science, Poetry, and Progress
Biography
Keith G. Davies is an associate professor based at the University of Hertfordshire, where he teaches the science of crop protection and plant pathology. Dr Davies has published widely on crop protection in over 80 refereed articles and book chapters and has also been actively involved in public engagement with science. This is his first book that brings together his scientific concerns with his broader cultural and philosophic interests around the relationship between science, the humanities and the nature of progress.
"In 1802, around the time he illustrated Isaac Newton as a divine but short-sighted geometer, poet and artist William Blake commented: “May God us keep From Single vision & Newton’s sleep.” Plant scientist Keith Davies uses this as a springboard for exploring imagination’s role in science and progress. Despite his regard for technology, he argues that future progress depends not on past human vision but on imagining “new layers of stratified stability which are environmentally, socially and economically sustainable”."
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