Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
Author: first_name: Thomas Henry
last_name: Huxley
Language: English
Year: 1889

Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented writer, his essays helped to popularize science in the 19th century, and he is credited with the quote, "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." In <i>The Advance of Science in the Last Half Century</i>, he presents a summary of the major developments in Physics, Chemistry and Biology during the period 1839-1889 and their impa