| Description |
xxiii, 322 pages ; 24 cm |
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Cover title. |
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British ed. published in 1957 by International University Society has title: Science: a course of selected reading by authorities. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography. |
| Contents |
The scope of science / Karl Pearson -- The beginnings of science / Sir John Myres -- The first step in pure science / Immanuel Kant -- Science and the imagination / Karl Pearson -- The principles of natural science / Aristotle -- The nature of scientific knowledge / William Peddie -- The philosopher and the scientist / E. N. Da C. Andrade -- The value of organized knowledge / Sir Archibald Geikie -- The four elements / Pythagoras -- On the heavens / Aristotle -- The influence of the stars / Ptolemy -- The revolution of the celestial globe / Copernicus -- The surface of the moon / Galileo Galilei -- The discovery of jupiter's satellites -- The theory of gravitation / Issac Newton -- The mystery of creation / H. F. Helmholtz -- The universe as revealed by modern astronomy / Hector Macpherson -- Gravitation and relativity / Sir Arthur Eddinton -- Dr. Einstein sums up / J. Bronowski -- Life on other worlds / Sir H. Spencer Jones -- The moon / Sir Robert Ball -- The crust of the earth / Sir Charles Lyell -- The different kinds of air / A. L. Lavoisier -- On the constitution of bodies / John Dalton -- Molecules / Clerk Maxwell -- The decomposition of water / Michael Faraday -- Radium and radio-activity / Sir J. J. Thomson -- The electrical structure of matter / Lord Rutherford -- The structure of the atom / F. W. Aston -- Beyond the electron / Sir J. J. Thomson -- The most transient form of matter / C. F. Powell -- Matter Dematerialized / Erwin Schrodinger -- A sense of the future / J. Bronowski -- Science and literature as modes of progress / Lord John Russell -- Science in nineteenth-century Britain / E. F. Armstrong -- Science the servant of humanity / E. N. Da C. Andrade -- Science, war, and peace / Sir William Osler -- Africa and science / Jan H. Hofmeyr -- Marchesse Marconi / Radio communications -- How radar works / Sir Edward Appleton -- Revealing the invisible / Sir Charles Darwin -- The story of the other side / Richard Jefferies |
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Science.
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Science. |
| Added Author |
Andrade, E. N. da C. (Edward Neville da Costa), 1887-1971.
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International University Society.
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