A
TREASURY
OF
SCIENCE
- Hardback book Edited by Harlow Shapley, Samuel Rapport and Helen Wright
- Fourth Revised Edition
- Copyright © 1943, 1946, 1954, 1958, by Harper & Brothers
Contents includes:
" PREFACE
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION
Part One: INTRODUCTION
ON SHARING IN THE CONQUESTS OF SCIENCE by Harlow Shapley
Part Two: SCIENCE AND THE SCIENTIST
THE WONDER OF THE WORLD by Sir J. Arthur Thomson and Patrick Geddes
WE ARE ALL SCIENTISTS by T.H. Huxley
SCIENTISTS ARE LONELY MEN by Oliver La Farge
TURTLE EGGS FOR AGASSIZ by Dallas Lore Sharp
THE AIMS AND METHODS OF SCIENCE by Roger Bacon, Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington, Ivan Pavlov, and Alan Gregg
Part Three: THE PHYSICAL WORLD
A: THE HEAVENS
A THEORY THAT THE EARTH MOVES AROUND THE SUN by Nicholas Copernicus
PROOF THAT THE EARTH MOVES by Galileo Galilei
THE ORDERLY UNIVERSE by Forest Ray Moulton
THE MILKY WAY AND BEYOND by Sir Arthur Eddington
RADIO STARS by A.C.B. Lovell
B: THE EARTH
A YOUNG MAN LOOKING AT ROCKS by Hugh Miller
GEOLOGICAL CHANGE by Sir Archibald Geike
EARTHQUAKES-WHAT ARE THEY ? by The Reverend James B. Macelwane, S.J.
LAST DAYS OF ST. PIERRE by Fairfax Downey
PIN-POINTING THE PAST WITH THE COSMIC CLOCK by Richard Foster Flint
WHAT MAKES THE WEATHER by Wolfgang Langewiesche
C: MATTER, ENERGY, PHYSICAL LAW
NEWTONIANA
DISCOVERIES by Sir Isaac Newton
MATHEMATICS, THE MIRROR OF CIVILIZATION by Lancelot Hogben
EXPERIMENTS AND IDEAS by Benjamin Franklin
EXPLORING THE ATOM by Sir James Jeans
THE DISCOVERY OF RADIUM by Eve Curie
ELECTRONICS EVERYWHERE by A.M. Low
GIANT BRAINS by Edmund Callis Berkeley
MACHINES THAT THINK by Edmund Callis Berkely
SOME EARLY PIONEERS IN CHEMISTRY by Stephen Miall and L.M. Miall
THE FOUNDATIONS OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY by Robert E. Rose
MAN'S SYNTHETIC FUTURE by Roger Adams
SPACE, TIME AND EINSTEIN by Paul R. Heyl
Part Four: THE WORLD OF LIFE
A: THE RIDDLE OF LIFE
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ORGANISMS by Sir J. Arthur Thomson and Patrick Geddes
LEEUWENHOEK: FIRST OF THE MICROBE HUNTERS by Paul de Kruif
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE by George Wald
B: THE SPECTACLE OF LIFE
ON BEING THE RIGHT SIZE by J.B.S. Haldane
PARASITISM AND DEGENERATION by David Starr Jordan and Vernon Lyman Kellogg
FLOWERING EARTH by Donald Culross Peattie
A LOBSTER; OR, THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGY by T.H. Huxley
THE LIFE OF THE SIMPLEST ANIMALS by David Starr Jordon and Vernon Lyman Kellogg
SECRETS OF THE OCEAN by William Beebe
THE WARRIOR ANTS by Caryl P. Haskins
THE VAMPIRE BAT by Raymond L. Ditmars and Arthur M. Greenhall
ANCESTORS by Gustav Eckstein
C: THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE
DARWINISMS
DARWIN AND "THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES" by Sir Arthur Keith
GREGOR MENDEL AND HIS WORK by Hugo Iltis
THE COURTSHIP OF ANIMALS by Julian Huxley
MAGIC ACRES by Alfred Toombs
Part Five: THE WORLD OF MAN
A: FROM APE TO CIVILIZATION
THE EVIDENCE OF THE DESCENT OF MAN FROM SOME LOWER FORM by Charles Darwin
THE UPSTART OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM by Earnest A. Hooton
EVOLUTION REVISITED by Ruth Moore
LESSONS IN LIVING FROM THE STONE AGE by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
RACIAL CHARACTERS OF THE BODY by Sir Arthur Keith
B: THE HUMAN MACHINE
VESALIUS AND HARVEY: THE FOUNDING OF MODERN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY by Michael Foster
THE ONLY CONTEMPORARY CHARACTER SKETCH OF WILLIAM HARVEY by John Aubrey
BIOGRAPHY OF THE UNBORN by Margaret Shea Gilbert
HOW THE HUMAN BODY IS STUDIED by Sir Arthur Keith
VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY DARWIN by Julian Huxley
C: THE CONQUEST OF DISEASE
THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH
HIPPOCRATES, THE GREEK- THE END OF MAGIC by Logan Clendening
AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES AND EFFECT OF THE VARIOUS VACCINAE by Edward Jenner
THE HISTORY OF THE KINE POX by Benjamin Waterhouse
LOUIS PASTEUR AND THE CONQUEST OF RABIES by Rene Vallery-Radot
CHEMOTHERAPY by Alexander Fleming
THE NEW SCIENCE OF SURGERY by Frank G. Slaughter
D: MAN'S MIND
THINKING by James Harvey Robinson
IMAGINATION CREATRIX by John Livingston Lowes
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SIGMUND FREUD by A.A. Brill
Part Six: THE ROCKET AND THE ATOM
A: ROCKETS, MISSILES, SPACE
REACTION MOTORS: HOW THEY WORK AND SOME EXPERIMENTS WITH THEM by G. Edward Pendray
WE LEARN A LESSON by Milton Rosen
A SHOT AROUND THE WORLD by Arthur C. Clarke
LIFE IN SPUTNIK by P. Isakov
IS THERE LIFE ON OTHER WORLDS ? by Sir James Jeans
B: THE POWER OF THE ATOM:
AN END OR A BEGINNING ?
ATOMIC TERMS AND WHAT THEY MEAN
by the Esso Research and Engineering Company
ATOMIC ENERGY FOR MILITARY PURPOSES by Henry D. Smyth
ATOMIC WARFARE, PAST AND FUTURE by Jacob Sacks
THE DEATH OF LOUIS SLOTIN by Ralph E. Lapp
RADIATIONS AND THE GENETIC THREAT by Warren Weaver
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST RADIATION EXPOSURE
a Report by the National Academy of Sciences
NUCLEAR POWER IN THE FUTURE by J.R. Dunning
INDUSTRIAL USES OF ISOTOPES
a Report by the United States Atomic Energy Commission
ISOTOPES IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY by Hendrik M. Rozendaal
A LAYMAN LOOKS AT SCIENCE by Raymond B. Fosdick
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The book is in pretty good condition for its age.
The cover has some spots and the side edges of the pages look dirty and have some dirt smudges.
No torn or ripped pages.
No other markings or writing.
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