The spirit of research
By: by T. Brailsford Robertson ; edited by Jane W. Robertson
Contributors: Robertson, Jane Winifred Stirling
Publisher: F.W. Preece
Published: 1931
Place of publication: Adelaide
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Research
Description: "Brailsford Robertson's brief but exceedingly intensive life was devoted to scientific research. Nevertheless he found time to write numerous articles of a more general appeal. Some of these are collected here in book form. They show an amazing breadth of knowledge and a deep outlook on the fundamental things of life. Their virility, their downright common sense, and their powerful and picturesque expression reveal the versatility and power of the mind that lay behind all Robertson's work."--Introduction, page v.
Notes: Collection of essays and addresses, most of which have appeared previously in scientific periodical or university journals.
Table of contents: title: The spirit of research.; title: Science as a vehicle of education.; title: The cash value of scientific research.; title: The historical continuity of science.; title: The strategies of scientific investigation.; title: Science and the war.; title: The place of scientific research in the life that lies before us.; title: Consciousness and the sense of time.; title: The mechanistic origin of finalism.; title: The life and work of a mechanistic philosopher, Jacques Loeb.; title: The external inheritance of man.; title: Who are "the fit" in social evolution?