Man and the universe
By: [compiled and edited by the faculty of] Lynchburg College.
Contributors: Lynchburg College.
Series: Classical selections on great issues ;; ser. 2, v. 1
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Science -- History -- Sources
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The new organon / Francis Bacon; title: The origins of modern science / Herbert Butterfield; title: On the revolution of the heavenly bodies ; Commentariolus / Nicholas Copernicus; title: The starry messenger ; Letter to the grand duchess ; Dialogues concerning two new sciences / Galileo Galilei; title: Principia mathematicas / Isaac Newton; title: The chemical history of a candle / Michael Faraday; title: The special and general theory of relativity ; Science and religion / Albert Einstein; title: Physics and philosophy / Werner Heisenberg; title: The astronomical horizon / James Jeans.