Scientific Progress
| By: | James Jeans; William Bragg; E.V. Appleton; E. Mellanby; J.B.S. Haldane; Julian S. Huxley |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781138013599 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781317699033 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1936 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.