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A century of science, and other essays.
Title:
A century of science, and other essays.
Author:
Fiske, John, 1842-1901.
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Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1899.
Physical Description:
vii, 477 pages ; 21 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Century of science.--Doctrine of evolution; its scope and purport.--Edward Livingston Youmans.--Part played by infancy in the evolution of man.--Origins of liberal thought in America.--Sir Harry Vane.--Arbitration treaty.--Francis Parkman.--Edward Augustus Freeman.--Cambridge as village and city.--Harvest of Irish folk-lore.--Guessing at half and multiplying by two.--Forty-years of Bacon-Shakespeare folly.--Some cranks and their crochets.
Format :
Book