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Article: Lisa Jardine: in the 20th article in his quarterly series about today's historians, Daniel Snowman meets the Renaissance and Shakespeare scholar, historian of science and biographer of Erasmus, Bacon, Wren and Hooke.(Today's History)
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- October 1, 2003
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'I HAVE NEVER understood the difference between the arts and the sciences, or felt the need to choose between them.' The sentence could have come from Dr Jacob Bronowski, the Polish-born mathematician, scientist, television Brains Truster, presenter of TV's Ascent of Man and expert on the poetry of Blake. In fact, it comes from his daughter, Lisa Jardine, whose writings are peppered with statements to the effect that intellectual boundaries are for crossing.
As you read Jardine's work or spend time in her company, you get a firm impression of someone--like Erasmus or Bacon--unconfinable within conventional borders. In an early, feminist study of Shakespeare, she ...