Background to modern science
Subtitle: ten lectures at Cambridge arranged by the History of science committee, 1936
By: by F.M. Cornford, Sir A.S. Eddington, Sir W. Dampier ... [and others] edited by Joseph Needham and Walter Pagel.
Contributors: Pagel, Walter, 1898- joint ed.; Cornford, Francis Macdonald, 1874-1943.; University of Cambridge. History of Science Committee.
Series: The Cambridge library of modern science; general editor: C.P. Snow; Cambridge library of modern science.
Publisher: The Macmillan company; The University press
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York; Cambridge, Eng
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Science -- History.; Science.
Table of contents: title: Greek natural philosophy and modern science, by F.M. Cornford.; title: From Aristotle to Galileo, by Sir W.C. Dampier.; title: Forty years of physics, by Lord Rutherford.; title: Forty years of crystal physics, by W.L. Bragg.; title: Forty years of atomic theory, by F.W. Aston.; title: Forty years of astronomy, by Sir Arthur Eddington.; title: Forty years of physiology and pathology, by J.A. Ryle.; title: Forty years of parasitology and tropical medicine, by G.H.F. Nuttall.; title: Forty years of evolution theory, by R.C. Punnett.; title: Forty years of genetics, by J.B.S. Haldane.