A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy and Religion

by William Dampier

Overview

This famous book, first published in 1929 was considerably revised and enlarged in its fourth edition, which is being reprinted now. This edition had the addition of a postscript by Professor I. Bernard Cohen containing a list of reading, with comments on them to guide the readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521093668
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1948
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.18(d)

Table of Contents

1. Science in the Ancient World; 2. The Middle Ages; 3. The Renaissance; 4. The Newtonian Epoch; 5. The Eighteenth Century; 6. Nineteenth-Century Physics; 7. Nineteenth-Century Biology; 8. Nineteenth-Century Science and Philosophic Thought; 9. Further Development in Biology and Anthropology; 10. The New Era in Physics; 11. The Stellar Universe; 12. Scientific Philosophy and its Outlook.