Science and civilization
Subtitle: essays.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Science and civilization -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Reprint of the 1923 ed.
"Based on lectures given at the Sixth Unity History School held near Birmingham in August 1922."
Table of contents: title: The beginnings of science, by J. L. Myres.; title: Ancient medicine, by C. Singer.; title: Aspects of biological and geological knowledge in Antiquity, by A. Platt.; title: Greek mathematics and astronomy, by J. L. E. Dreyer.; title: The dark ages and the dawn, by C. Singer.; title: The first physical synthesis, by A. N. Whitehead.; title: Science in the industrial revolution, by C. H. Desch.; title: The influence of Darwinism on thought and life, by J. A. Thomson.; title: Science and education, by A. E. Heath.; title: Science and health, by F. G. Crookshank.; title: Science and religion, by J. S. Huxley.; title: Science and human affairs, by F. S. Marvin.