Background to modern science ; ten lectures at Cambridge arranged by the History of science committee, 1936 / by F. M. Cornford. Sir A. S. Eddington, Sir W. Dampier ... [and others] edited by Joseph Needham and Walter Pagel.

Author/creator Needham, Joseph editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge. [Eng.] : The University press, 1938.
Descriptionxii, 243 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Subjects

Other author/creatorPagel, Walter, editor.
Other author/creatorCornford, Francis Macdonald, 1874-1943.
Included WorkNoĕl Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham.
Other author/creatorUniversity of Cambridge. History of Science Committee.
SeriesThe Cambridge library of modern science: general editor: C. P. Snow
Contents Greek natural philosophy and modern science, by F. M. Cornford.-From Aristotle to Galilco, by Sir W. C. Dampier.-Forty years of physics, by Lord Rutherford.-Forty years of crystal physics, by W. L. Bragg.-Forty years of atomic theory, by F. W. Aston.-Forty years of astronomy, by Sir Arthur Eddington.-Forty years of physiology and pathology, by J. A. Ryle.-Forty years of parasitology and tropical medicine, by G. H. F. Nuttall.-Forty years of evolution theory, by R. C. Punnett.-Forty years of genetics, by J. B. S. Haldane.
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Joyner General Stacks Q125 .N44 1938 ✔ Available Place Hold