Bronowski's Easter Island I was helping with clearing a house of old books and the Jacob Bronowski book The Ascent of Man (1973) fell into my hands and it opened at a picture of Easter Island moai, on an ahu with two pages of text about Easter Island. It is a book about the BBC TV series of the same name. shown the same year. I vaguely remembered watching it. You can read about Bronowski here: Jacob Bronowski - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski . He was a scholar on the history of science. The series and the book are mostly about that. “ He is best known for developing a humanistic approach to science, and as the presenter and writer of the th irteen-part 1973 BBC television documentary series, and accompanying book, The Ascent of Man , which led to his regard as "one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals". ” This is the quote which I read with some astonishment. “… Even so primitive a culture as Easter Island made one tremendou