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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972. Readings in the physical sciences. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1948] (OCoLC)594370747 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Harlow Shapley; Helen Wright; Samuel Berder Rapport |
| OCLC Number: | 313274 |
| Description: | xiii, 501 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Part One. Science and Scientific Method -- Thoughts on science / Aristotle to Einstein -- Method of scientific investigation/ T.H. Huxley -- Reasonableness of science / W. M. Davis -- Science and engineering / William F. Durand -- Place of science in a liberal education / Bertrand Russell -- Imagination creatrix / John Livingston Lowes -- Scientists are lonely men / Oliver La Farge -- Layman looks at science / Raymond B. Fosdick -- Part Two. Astronomy -- Theory that the earth moves around the sun / Nicholas Copernicus -- Proof that the earth moves / Galileo Galilei -- Motion in the line of sight / Sir William Huggins -- Influence on astronomy on science / F. R. Moulton -- Driving back the dark / Robert Grant Aitken -- Solar system and its origin / Fred L. Whipple -- Is there life on other worlds? / Sir James Jeans -- How the stars use atomic energy / George Gamow -- Milky Way and beyond / Sir Arthur Eddington -- 200-inch telescope / Sir H. Spencer Jones -- Work for the 200-inch camera / Ira Sprague Bowen -- Astronomy and scientific ideas / Herbert Dingle -- Part Three. Geology -- Scottish geologists / Sir Archibald Geikie -- Weighing the earth / Paul R. Heyl -- X-raying the earth / Reginald A. Daly -- Earthquakes : what are they? / James B. Macelwane -- Study of the sea and its relation to man / Claude E. ZoBell -- Story of a billion years / W. O. Hotchkiss -- Geologic records of time / Adolph Knopf -- Formation of mineral deposits / C. C. Furnas -- TVA : democracy on the march / David E. Lilienthal -- What makes the weather / Wolfgang Langewiesche -- Part Four. Mathematics -- Thoughts on mathematics / Plato to Whitehead -- Mathematical creation / Henri Poincare -- Study of mathematics / Bertrand Russell -- Introduction to mathematics / Alfred North Whitehead -- From Cyzicus to Neptune / Eric Temple Bell -- Part Five. Physics -- History of physics / Henry Andrews Bumstead -- Sir Isaac Newton / Humphrey Newton -- Discoveries / Sir Isaac Newton -- On the sensation of sound in general / Hermann Von Helmholtz -- Electrical experiments / Benjamin Franklin -- Concepts and forms of energy / C. C. Furnas -- Microwaves / Lee Alvin DuBridge -- Trial by wind tunnel / George W. Gray -- Jets power future flying / Watson Davis -- Exploring the atom / Sir James Jeans -- Discovery of radium / Marie Sklodowska Curie -- Atomic energy for military purposes / Henry D. Smyth -- Scientific meaning of chance / Gilbert N. Lewis -- Space, time, and Einstein / Paul R. Heyl -- Part Six. Chemistry -- Method of the inductive sciences / Ida Freund -- Combustion - James B. Conant -- Periodic classification of the elements / William F. Ehret -- Task of the organic chemist / G. Ross Robertson -- Order and chaos in the world of atoms / B. C. Saunders and R. E. D. Clark -- Foundations of chemical industry / Robert E. Rose -- Bouncing molecules (and rubber) / William A. Gibbsons -- Molecular architecture and medical progress / Linus Pauling. |
| Responsibility: | ed. by Harlow Shapley, Helen Wright [and] Samuel Rapport. |
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