Science and the modern world / by Alfred North Whitehead.

By: Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947
Material type: TextTextSeries: Lowell Institute lectures ; 1925Publisher: New York : Macmillan, 1948Copyright date: ©1925Description: xii, 304 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Science
Contents:
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.

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.

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