Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
There can be no doubt that the prestige of science has greatly increased of recent times. In the days when Dickens wrote _The Mudfog Papers_ the man of science, to the general reading public, was a purely comic figure. After the man of science had knocked the bottom out of the...
There can be no doubt that the prestige of science has greatly increased of recent times. In the days when Dickens wrote _The Mudfog Papers_ the man of science, to the general r...
2. Part 2The physics of recent years has made heavy demands upon our capacity for realization. The electron theory, with its analysis of matter into “disembodied charges of electricity”...
3. Part 3This material is chiefly the Newtonian set of abstractions. Newton postulated, as the fundamental constituents out of which the perceived universe is built up, Space, Time, and...