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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Needham, Joseph, 1900-1995, editor.
- Series:
- Cambridge library of modern science
- The Cambridge library of modern science; general editor: C.P. Snow
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History.
- Science.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Macmillan company; Cambridge, Eng. : The University press, 1938.
- Contents:
- Greek natural philosophy and modern science, by F.M. Cornford.
- From Aristotle to Galileo, 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.
- OCLC:
- 1076606
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