Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PUBLISHERS' NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE
- Contents
- PLATES
- I THE REMOTE BEGINNINGS
- II IONIA AND EARLY GREECE
- III SCIENCE IN ALEXANDRIA
- IV SCIENCE IN THE DARK AGES
- V THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE
- VI THE CENTURY OF GENIUS
- VII THE TWO CENTURIES AFTER NEWTON
- VIII THE ERA OF MODERN PHYSICS
- Index
- Plate section
PUBLISHERS' NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- PUBLISHERS' NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE
- Contents
- PLATES
- I THE REMOTE BEGINNINGS
- II IONIA AND EARLY GREECE
- III SCIENCE IN ALEXANDRIA
- IV SCIENCE IN THE DARK AGES
- V THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE
- VI THE CENTURY OF GENIUS
- VII THE TWO CENTURIES AFTER NEWTON
- VIII THE ERA OF MODERN PHYSICS
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
This book was published posthumously in 1947. Sir James Jeans had seen and read the first proofs, but he died before the final touches could be added. Since publication a number of expert reviewers and readers have voluntarily supplied the publishers with notes of misprints in dates and names, and of places where the latest findings on matters dealt with had been overlooked. In the ordinary course Sir James Jeans would himself have revised his book in the light of these indications. As this was no longer possible the publishers have taken expert advice, and after collating the comments of several readers have put the preparation of the second edition into the hands of Mr P. J. Grant of the Cavendish Laboratory. They are grateful to all those who have helped in this way.
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- The Growth of Physical Science , pp. vPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009