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Darwin to Einstein : historical studies on science and belief / edited by Colin Chant and John Fauvel.
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Longman :: London,
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1980.
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x, 335 pages ; 22 cm
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Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod. "This anthology is part of an Open University third-level course, Science and belief: from Darwin to Einstein"
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
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Monograph
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0582491568 0582491576 (pbk.) :;
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Philosophic movements in the nineteeth century / M. Mandelbaum -- Victorian scientific naturalism / F.M. Turner -- Natural theology, Victorian periodicals and the fragmentation of a common context / R.M. Young -- Science, politics and spontaneous generation
in nineteenth-century France : the Pasteur-Pouchet debate / J. Farley and G.L. Geison -- The Harvard 'Pareto Circle' / B. Heyl -- The role of psychology in the nineteenth-century evolutionary debate / R.M. Young -- Kelvin and the age of the earth / J.D. Burchfield -- The sexual politics of Victorian social anthropology / E. Fee -- Smith Woodward's Folly / S.J. Gould -- Maxwell's demon / E.E. Daub -- Einstein and the search for reality / G. Holton -- Weimar culture, causality, and quantum theory, 1918-1927 / P. Forman -- Weimar culture and quantum causality / J. Hendry.
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