Readings in science
By: edited by John A. Lester
Series: Riverside literature series -- 223; Riverside literature series -- no. 223
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1930
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Readers; Science
Notes: "Some books worth reading": p. [189]-190.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Beginnings; title: What science means for man  -- Oliver Lodge; title: Science four thousand years ago  -- Walter Libby; title: Working and waiting  -- John Tyndall; title: Sub-men and prehistoric men  -- H.G. Wells -- Part II. Development and discovery; title: Evolution ;; title: Heredity  -- George H. Parker; title: Coöperation : The Attas -- A jungle labor-union  -- William Beebe; title: Dancing upon the whole world  -- Edward A. Le Roy, Jr.; title: The conquest of disease  -- Richard Gregory; title: "Langley's folly"  -- Walter Libby -- Part III. The universe and the world; title: The kingdom of the heavens  -- Charles Nordmann; title: The great deeps  -- J. Arthur Thomson; title: The laboratory of nature  -- William Joseph Showalter; title: The laboratory of man  -- Edwin E. Slosson; title: The romance of the atom  -- Benjamin Harrow -- Part IV. The future; title: The new heredity -- Vernon Kellogg.