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Title:
A short history of science and scientific thought, with readings from the great scientists from the Babylonians to Einstein / by F. Sherwood Taylor, PhD., Curator of the Museum of History of Science at Oxford.
Author:
Taylor, F. Sherwood (Frank Sherwood), 1897-1956, author.

University of Oxford. Museum of the History of Science.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company Inc., [1963]

©1963
Call Number:
Q125 .T28 1963
ISBN:
9780393001402
Series:
Norton library ; N140

Norton library ; N140.
Physical Description:
368 pages, 28 pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
General Note:
"This book is published in England under the title: Science past and present"--Title page verso.

"Suggestions for further reading": pages 360-362.
Subject Term:
Contents:
I. The study of the history of science -- II. The beginnings of science -- III. Theoretical science begins -- IV Science in eclipse -- V. The revival of observation -- VI. The founders of modern science -- VII. Man learns the nature of the solar system -- VIII. The mechanical philosophy -- IX. The first principles of the sciences -- X. The study of gases -- XI. The age of steam -- XII. Science and public health -- XIII. Man learns the past -- XIV. Man discovers the universe -- XV. The age of electricity -- XVI. The acceleration of transport -- XVII. The atom in the nineteenth century -- XVIII. New kinds of matter -- XIX. The atom in the twentieth century -- XX. Man learns about his body -- XXI. Waves and particles -- XXII. What is science? -- XXIII. The functions of science.
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