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Background to modern science : ten lectures at Cambridge arranged by the History of science committee, 1936 / by F. M. Cornford. Sir A. S. Eddington, Sir W. Dampier ... [et al] ; edited by Joseph Needham and Walter Pagel.

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Background to modern science : ten lectures at Cambridge arranged by the History of science committee, 1936 / by F. M. Cornford. Sir A. S. Eddington, Sir W. Dampier ... [et al] ; edited by Joseph Needham and Walter Pagel.

Publisher

Cambridge. [Eng.] : The University press, 1938.

Date

1938.

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T0020570

Record Identifier

74VvD5yzq3Py

MMS ID

991005115379702626

Language

English

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xii, 243, [1] p. : illus. ; 20 cm.

Contents

Greek natural philosophy and modern science, by F. M. Cornford.-From Aristotle to Galilco, by Sir W. C. Dampier.-Forty years of physics, by Lord Rutherford.-Forty years of crystal physics, by W. L. Bragg.-Forty years of atomic theory, by F. W. Aston.-Forty years of astronomy, by Sir Arthur Eddington...

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Publisher

Cambridge. [Eng.] : The University press, 1938.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1938.

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Background to modern science : ten lectures at Cambridge arranged by the History of science committee, 1936 / by F. M. Cornford. Sir A. S. Eddington, Sir W. Dampier ... [et al] ; edited by Joseph Needham and Walter Pagel.

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General note

The Cambridge library of modern science: general editor: C. P. Snow.

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T0020570

Record Identifier

74VvD5yzq3Py

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509

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991005115379702626

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