Man and the universe
Subtitle: the philosophers of science
By: edited by Saxe Commins & Robert N. Linscott.
Contributors: Linscott, Robert N. 1886-1964.
Series: The world's great thinkers
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1947
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; mul
Number of pages: 482
Subjects: Philosophy.; Philosophie -- Collections.; Sciences -- Philosophie.
Other titles: Philosophers of science.
Table of contents: title: On the nature of things (Book V) / Lucretius; title: On the revolutions of the celestial spheres / Nicholas Copernicus; title: Novum organum (Book I) / Francis Bacon; title: Discourse on method / René Descartes; title: The positive philosophy / Auguste Comte; title: Recapitulation and conclusion (from The origin of species) / Charles Darwin; title: The evolution of life (from Creative evolution) / Henri Bergson; title: The method of dream-interpretation / Sigmund Freud; title: The dream as wish-fulfillment / Sigmund Freud; title: Science and philosophy / Alfred North Whitehead; title: Some problems of philosophy / Sir James Jeans; title: Reality, causation, science and mysticism / Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington; title: The problems of space, ether and the field in physics / Albert Einstein.