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Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Author(s) | James Jeans / William Bragg / E.V. Appleton / E. Mellanby / J.B.S. Haldane / Julian S. Huxley / James Jeans |
Published | 28th February 2016 |
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First published in 1936, this volume contains six of the Halley Stewart Lectures – originally founded "For Research towards the Christian Ideal in All Social Life" – by some of the greatest of English scientists of the mid-20th century, each a leading authority in his respective field: cosmology, physics, meteorology, medicine and genetics.
The final lecture considers the relationship between scientific knowledge and human ideals, commenting on the paradox that a century which produced such scientific advance also witnessed the most concentrated period of social, economic and political turmoil in world history.