The New Background of Science
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
- Author: James Jeans
- Date Published: July 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108005722
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Published in 1934 as a second edition to James Jeans' popular work on the general understanding of the physical universe, The New Background of Science took advantage of a comparatively 'quiescent' period in physical investigation when fundamental theories and findings gained wide acceptance. Jeans' aim in writing this book was to depict this 'situation in broad outline and in the simplest possible terms. I have drawn my picture against a roughly sketched background of rudimentary philosophy... because I believe, in common with most scientific workers, that without a background of this kind we can neither see our fresh knowledge as a consistent whole, nor appreciate its significance to the full.'
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- Date Published: July 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108005722
- length: 328 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.42kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The approach to the external world
2. The methods of science
3. The framework of the external world: space and time
4. Mechanism
5. The texture of the external world: matter and radiation
6. Wave-mechanics
7. Indeterminacy
8. Events.
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