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Science remaking the world / edited by Otis W. Caldwell ... and Edwin E. Slosson ...
LIBRA 507 C1252
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caldwell, Otis W. (Otis William), 1869-1947.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science.
- Medicine.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- x pages, 2 |., 292 pages : frontispiece (folded tables) illustrations (including maps) plates, portrait, diagrams ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.
- Contents:
- Achievements and obligations of modern science, by O.W. Caldwell.
- Gasoline as a world power, by E.E. Slosson.
- The influence of coal-tar on civilization, by E.E. Slosson.
- Electrons and how we use them, by J. Mills.
- An investigation on epidemic influenza, by P.K. Olitsky and F.L. Gates.
- Our present knowledge of tuberculosis, by L.R. Williams.
- Louis Pasteur and lengthened human life, by O.W. Caldwell.
- International public health, by G.E. Vincent.
- Educational value of modern botanical gardens, by G.T. Moore.
- The meaning of evolution, by J.M. Coulter.
- Our fight against insects, by L.O. Howard.
- Insect sociology, by V. Kellogg.
- How the forests feed the clouds, by R. Zon.
- The modern potato problem, by C.O. Appleman.
- Chemistry and economy of food, by H.C. Sherman.
- Our daily bread and vitamins, by W.H. Eddy.
- Notes:
- Lectures delivered during the summer of 1922 at Teachers College, Columbia University.
- "Guide to further reading" at the end of most of the chapters.
- OCLC:
- 1398355
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