Background to modern science
Subtitle: ten lectures at Cambridge arranged by the History of science committee, 1936
By: by F. M. Cornford. Sir A. S. Eddington, Sir W. Dampier ... [and others] edited by Joseph Needham and Walter Pagel.
Contributors: Pagel, Walter, 1898- joint ed.; Cornford, Francis Macdonald, 1874-1943.; University of Cambridge. History of Science Committee.
Series: The Cambridge library of modern science: general editor: C. P. Snow
Publisher: The University press
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Cambridge. [Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Science -- History.; Science.
Table of contents: title: Greek natural philosophy and modern science, by F. M. Cornford.-From Aristotle to Galilco, by Sir W. C. Dampier.-Forty years of physics, by Lord Rutherford.-Forty years of crystal physics, by W. L. Bragg.-Forty years of atomic theory, by F. W. Aston.-Forty years of astronomy, by Sir Arthur Eddington.-Forty years of physiology and pathology, by J. A. Ryle.-Forty years of parasitology and tropical medicine, by G. H. F. Nuttall.-Forty years of evolution theory, by R. C. Punnett.-Forty years of genetics, by J. B. S. Haldane.