History of science.
Series: Its Forum lectures; Voice of America forum lectures.
Published: 1964
Place of publication: [Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Science -- History.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Cover title.
Table of contents: title: The history of science and its study in the United States, by D.H.D. Roller.; title: Galileo and medieval kinematics, by M. Clagett.; title: Hypotheses in late medieval and early modern science, by E. Grant.; title: The Lunar Society, science, and the industrial revolution, by R.E. Schofield.; title: American science in the time of Thomas Jefferson, by J.C. Greene.; title: The origins of field theory, by L.P. Williams.; title: The social and intellectual background of statistical mechanics, by C.C. Gillispie.; title: Cell theory and the development of general physiology, by E. Mendelsohn.; title: The history of technology, by M. Kranzberg.; title: Scientific research; an episode in the development of aviation technology, by T.M. Smith.; title: Final symposium, by D.B. Kitts, T.M. Smith, and D.H.D. Roller.