Modern culture
Subtitle: its true aims and requirements, a series of addresses and arguments on the claims of scientific education
By: By Professors Tyndall, Daubeny, Henfrey, Huxley, Paget, Whewell, Faraday, Draper, Masson, De Morgan, Owen; Drs. Hodgson, Carpenter, Hooker, Acland, Forbes, Grove, Herbert Spencer, Sir John Herschel, Sir Charles Lyell, Dr. Seguin, etc. Edited by Edward L. Youmans
Contributors: Royal College of Physicians of London
Publisher: Macmillan & Co.
Published: 1867
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: Science; Curriculum; Education; Higher Education
Notes: Contents: On the importance of the study of physics, by J. Tyndall. -- On the importance of the study of chemistry as a means of education, by C. G. B. Daubeny. -- On the educational claims of botanical science, by A. Henfrey. -- On the method of studying zoology, by T. H. Huxley. -- On the importance of the study of physiology, by J. Paget. -- On the influence of the history of science upon intellectual education, by W. Whewell. -- Observations on the education of the judgment, by [M.] Faraday. -- On the importance of the study of economic science, by W. B. Hodgson. -- On political education, by H. Spencer. -- On college-education and self-education, by D. Masson. -- Observations on the scientific study of human nature, By E. L. Youmans. -- Appendix [Extracts]

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