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- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright
- © Springer Nature B.V. 2020. The first edition of this book was published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland in 1971 publishing with ISBN-13:978-94-010-3110-3. The editors of the first edition were Stephen Toulmin and Harry Woolf. 1st edition: © D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1971
- ISBN
- 978-94-024-1738-8
- Pages
- 81 –121
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-024-1739-5_5
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[Norwood Russell Hanson (1924–1967) was a man out of his time, a character from the Florentine Renaissance growing up in the contemporary United States. Hanson showed how much can still be achieved, even within the professionalized technocratic society of the mid-twentieth century, by the true amateur: the man who makes himself the master of an art or science out of curiosity, love or sheer cussedness, quite unconnected with the business of earning a living. And he showed how such an amateur can achieve a kind of richness and variety of experience in a whole range of activities which spills over the boundaries between them. In this way, he became a “jack of many trades” and, in his own very special way, a master of them all.]
Published: Jan 30, 2020