Science and the modern world.
Subtitle: Lowell lectures, 1925
By: by Alfred North Whitehead.
Publisher: The Macmillan company
Published: 1925
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Science
Other titles: Lowell Institute lectures, 1925.
First sentence: The progress of civilisation is not wholly a uniform drift towards better things
Table of contents: title: The origins of modern science.; title: Mathematics as an element in the history of thought.; title: The century of genius.; title: The eighteenth century.; title: The romantic reaction.; title: The nineteenth century.; title: Relativity.; title: The quantum theory.; title: Science and philosophy.; title: Abstraction.; title: God.; title: Religion and science.; title: Requisites for social progress.