A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy and Religion

This famous book, first published in 1929 was considerably revised and enlarged in its fourth edition, which is being reprinted now.

William Dampier (Author)

9780521093668, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 January 1948

576 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 3 cm, 0.8 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: History of science [PDX]