Gerald James Whitrow vs. Otto Neurath
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Gerald James Whitrow
1912 – 2000
Gerald James Whitrow was a British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian.
"Galileo had raised the concepts of space and time to the status of fundamental categories by directing attention to the mathematical description of motion. The …"
Otto Neurath
1882 – 1945
Otto Karl Wilhelm Neurath was an Austrian-born philosopher of science, sociologist, and political economist. Considered "one of the neglected geniuses of the twentieth century", Neurath, among other things, invented the ISOTYPE method of pictorial statistics and an innovator in museum practice. Before he fled his native country in 1934, Neurath was one of the leading figures of the Vienna Circle.
"The members of the Vienna Circle are working out a ‘Logical Empiricism’. Following Ernst Mach and Poincaré, but above all Russell and Wittgenstein, all the scie…"
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