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A professor of English or of history does not usually cherish the illusion that his students are all potential novelists and poets or authorities on feudalism or eighteenth century liberalism. Literature ' history, philosophy are taught as cultural subjects. In science it is otherwise. Most teachers of chemistry, physics and biology lecture as if the young men and women before them were to become professional laboratory or field workers. The procedure is sound enough for engineering schools, but hardly for liberal arts colleges. It is the importance of science in modern society, the way that scientists think, the relations of the scientists to his environment that need to be taught." Professor Freeman goes on to state how this book approaches the problem: "The book makes no effort to 'cover' physics. (In one connotation the word implies a sort of suffocation or interment process!) Rather, the aim is to be selective instead of encyclopedic, to be penetrating but not needlessly detailed, to be meaningful without being technical. "Specifically, the text tries to give more attention than is usual at this level to the historical and philosophical aspects of the science; for the author f

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Author

A.M. Pichitino

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0016-0032)

Published

1949

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)