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: Loeb, Jacques, -- 1859-1924.; Science.; Research.
Notes: Collection of essays and addresses, most of which have appeared previously in scientific periodical or university journals.
Table of contents: value: The spirit of research.; value: Science as a vehicle of education.; value: The cash value of scientific research.; value: The historical continuity of science.; value: The strategies of scientific investigation.; value: Science and the war.; value: The place of scientific research in the life that lies before us.; value: Consciousness and the sense of time.; value: The mechanistic origin of finalism.; value: The life and work of a mechanistic philosopher, Jacques Loeb.; value: The external inheritance of man.; value: Who are "the fit" in social evolution?