| Title |
What is science? : twelve eminent scientists and philosophers explain their various fields to the layman / edited by James R. Newman. |
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| Imprint |
New York : Simon and Schuster, 1962. |
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1955. |
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| Description |
viii, 493 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Content |
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| Contents |
Science and human life / Bertrand Russell -- Mathematics and logic / Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker -- Astronomy and cosmology / Hermann Bondi -- Physics / Edward U. Condon -- Chemistry / John Read -- Biochemistry / Ernest Baldwin -- Biology / Warder Clyde Allee -- Evolution and genetics / Julian Huxley -- Psychology / Edwin G. Boring -- Anthropology / Clyde Kluckhohn -- Psychoanalysis / Erich Fromm -- Science as foresight / Jacob Bronowski. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-457) and index. |
| Note |
Digitized version available. |
| Local Note |
Gift of Keith Thomson, September 2021. |
| Subject(s) |
Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.
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Whittaker, E. T. (Edmund Taylor), 1873-1956.
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Bondi, Hermann.
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Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974.
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Read, John, 1884-1963.
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Baldwin, Ernest.
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Allee, W. C. (Warder Clyde), 1885-1955.
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Boring, Edwin Garrigues, 1886-1968.
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Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960.
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Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980.
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Bronowski, Jacob, 1908-1974.
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Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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| Alternate Author |
Newman, James R. (James Roy), 1907-1966, editor.
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