Author Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.

Title Science and the modern world : Lowell lectures, 1925.

Imprint New York : New American Library, ©1925.
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 Monograph Collection  Q175 .W464 1925  AVAILABLE
Description 191 pages : 13 cm
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Series Mentor book ; MP538.
Lowell Institute lectures ; 1925.
Contents The origins of modern science. -- Mathematics as an element in the history of thought. -- The century of genius. -- The eighteenth century. -- The romantic reaction. -- The nineteenth century. -- Relativity. -- The quantum theory. -- Science and philosophy. -- Abstraction. -- God. -- Religion and science. -- Requisites for social progress.
Subject(s) Science.