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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882 1944) was a key figure in the
development of modern astrophysics, who also made important
contributions to the philosophy of science and popular science
writing. The Arthur Eddington Memorial Trust was set up after his
death in order to hold annual lectures on the relationship between
scientific thought and aspects of philosophy, religion or ethics.
This 2012 collection gathers together six of these lectures,
including contributions by Sir Edmund Whittaker, Herbert Dingle,
Richard B. Braithwaite, John C. Eccles, Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, and
Baroness Mary Warnock, together with Eddington's 1929 Swarthmore
Lecture on Science and the Unseen World. A preface written by the
Astronomer Royal, Baron Rees of Ludlow, is also included. This is a
fascinating book that will be of value to anyone with an interest
in the philosophy of science and Eddington's legacy.
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) was a key figure in the
development of modern astrophysics, who also made important
contributions to the philosophy of science and popular science
writing. The Arthur Eddington Memorial Trust was set up after his
death in order to hold annual lectures on the relationship between
scientific thought and aspects of philosophy, religion or ethics.
This 2012 collection gathers together six of these lectures,
including contributions by Sir Edmund Whittaker, Herbert Dingle,
Richard B. Braithwaite, John C. Eccles, Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, and
Baroness Mary Warnock, together with Eddington's 1929 Swarthmore
Lecture on Science and the Unseen World. A preface written by the
Astronomer Royal, Baron Rees of Ludlow, is also included. This is a
fascinating book that will be of value to anyone with an interest
in the philosophy of science and Eddington's legacy.
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Opticks (Paperback)
Isaac Newton; Introduction by Edmund Whittaker
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One of the most readable of all the great classics of physical science, Opticks comprises a comprehensive survey of 18th-century knowledge of light, describing Newton's own experiments with spectroscopy, colors, lenses, reflection, refraction and more in language the lay person can easily follow. Foreword by Albert Einstein.
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