William Kingdon Clifford

Lectures and Essays

Herausgeber: Pollock, Frederick; Stephen, Leslie

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Produktbeschreibung

Essays by mathematician William Clifford, bridging the pure and social sciences in the wake of Darwinism, published posthumously in 1879.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781108040945
• ISBN-10: 1108040942
• Artikelnr.: 34570523

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 1. Biographical
2. Selections from letters, etc.
3. Bibliographical
Lectures and Essays: 1. On some of the conditions of mental development
2. On theories of the physical forces
3. On the aims and instruments of scientific thought
4. Atoms
5. The first and last catastrophe
6. The unseen universe
7. The philosophy of the pure sciences.