Science and the modern world

Author(s)

• Whitehead, Alfred North

Bibliographic Information

Science and the modern world

by Alfred North Whitehead

（Lowell lectures, 1925）

Cambridge University Press, 1926

Note

Includes index

Contents of Works

• The origins of modern science
• Mathematics as an element in the history of thought
• The century of genius
• The eighteenth century
• The romantic reaction
• The nineteenth century
• Relativity
• The quantum theory
• Science and philosophy
• Abstraction
• God
• Religion and science
• Requisites for social progress

Details

• NCID: BA30815674
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 265 p.
• Size: 19 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Q171
  • DC : 504
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Science -- Addresses, essays, lectures
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10442020