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Men and moments in the history of science

Title
Men and moments in the history of science / edited by Herbert M. Evans.
Publication
  • Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1959.
  • ©1959

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Additional Authors
  • Evans, Herbert M. (Herbert McLean), 1882-1971
  • University of Washington Press, publisher.
Description
viii, 226 pages : illustrations, portraits, diagrams, facsimile; 23 cm
Subject
  • Science > History
  • Science > history
  • Science
  • Science > History
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • "Essays ... presented as part of the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the History of Science Dinner Club."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliography.
Contents
Ontogenetic and other developmental parallels to the history of science / Egon Brunswik -- J.B. Stallo and the critique of classical physics / Stillman Drake -- Charles Fuller Baker, entomologist, botanist, teacher, 1872-1927 / E.O. Essig -- On the history of science and of the second law of thermodynamics / Frederick O. Koenig -- Planck's philosophy of science / Victor F. Lenzen -- The development of ethnography as a science / Robert H. Lowie -- Main topics in Marco Polo's description of the world / Leonardo Olschki -- Hypotheses non fingo / E.W. Strong -- The first stellar parallax de termination / Otto Struve.
ISBN
  • 0837124581
  • 9780837124582
LCCN
59014165
OCLC
  • ocm01079056
  • 1079056
  • SCSB-197138
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library