Science and sensibility / by James R. Newman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newman, James R. (James Roy), 1907-1966.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--History.

Science.

History.

Scientists.

Philosophers.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1961.

Contents:

Volume One. Part 1. Nature and the Greeks; Education in Antiquity; Science and civilization in China; The Copernican Revolution; The Lisbon Earthquake

Part 2. Francis Bacon; Cardano, the gambling scholar; Isaac Newton; The Marquis de Laplace; James Clerk Maxwell; William Kingdon Clifford; Francis Galton; The Wright Brothers; Arthur S. Eddington; Srinivasa Ramanujan; Einstein; Freud; John Maynard Keyes

Volume Two. Part 1. Blaise Pascal; John Stuart Mill; Bertrand Russell; Ludwig Wittgenstein; The age of analysis; Schrödinger-mind and matter; The scientific attitude

Part 2. Causality and chance in modern physics; Determinism and indeterminism; Reason and chance in scientific discovery

Part 3. Blackstone for the proletariat; Patterns of panic; Physics and politics; War or peace; Atomic harvest

Part 4. The commendablest phrases; A million years from now; Mind under matter; Quest for the mind; The wandering albatross; The foreseeable future; Comets and their origins.

Notes:

"This book contains a selection of essays, many of them long reviews, nearly all written since 1950. Most of them have been revised in a minor way, a few entirely rewritten and much lengthened. They are a fair sample of my occupations and preoccupations; they are concerned with what concerns me."--Author's Preface.

Includes bibliographical footnotes and indexes.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy volumes 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy volumes 1 & 2 housed in slipcase.

Potok Collection copy volumes 1 & 2 have autograph of "Herman Potok December 1962 Philadelphia".

Potok Collection copy is "First Printing".

OCLC:

649765