An edition of Victorian science (1970)

Victorian science

a self-portrait from the presidential addresses of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

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An edition of Victorian science (1970)

Victorian science

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Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
510

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Table of Contents

Science and society: The Founding of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, by W. V. Harcourt. Science and the state, by Prince Albert. Science and technology as sources of national power, by L. Playfair.
The physical sciences: Force and energy in an industrial society, by W. R. Grove. The structure of matter and the unity of science, by W. Thomson. Science and Victorian material culture, by W. Fairbairn. The molecule and the progress of chemistry, by H. E. Roscoe.
The life sciences: Embryology and evolution, by A. Thomson. Protoplasm and the commonality of life, by G. J. Allman. Physiology and the functional aspects of the organism, by J. S. Burdon-Sanderson. The evolutionary hypothesis, by C. G. B. Daubeny, and others.
Geology: Geology becomes a science, by A. Geikie.
Method and metaphysics: The logic of scientific endeavor, by J. Herschel. Man the interpreter of nature, by W. B. Carpenter. Science and religion, by J. Tyndall.
Fin de siècle: The new century. The death of the Queen. By J. N. Lockyer.

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Garden City, N.Y

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Dewey Decimal Class
508/.1
Library of Congress
Q171 .B335 1970

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x, 510 p. :
Number of pages
510

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OL16913850M

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