In The Government-Funded Big Science World, We Don't Value Cross-Disciplinary Research
Monday, August 3, 2015 - 15:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Until the early 1900s, scholars took it for granted that they could draw on any area of knowledge to inform their thinking on the major questions of the day. Medieval polymaths such as Hildegard of Bingen (medicine, linguistics, botany, art, philosophy and music) opened the door to Victorian scholars such as Temple Chevallier (astronomy, theology and maths) and Thomas Young (medicine, physics, music and Egyptology). read more