The New Treasury of ScienceHarlow Shapley, Samuel Berder Rapport, Helen Wright " ... a panoramic view of the modern man's universe, drawn from almost a hundred sources, containing information on current developments in rocketry and space exploration, nuclear physics, radio astronomy, evolution and human heredity."--Cover. |
Contents
ON SHARING IN THE CONQUESTS | 1 |
THE WONDER OF THE WORLD by Sir J Arthur Thomson | 7 |
GAINS FROM SERENDIPITY by Walter B Cannon | 19 |
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References to this book
The Many Faces Of Science: An Introduction To Scientists, Values, And Society Henry Byerly,Leslie Stevenson No preview available - 2000 |