Abstract
THIS book is in the nature of a supplement to a complete course of mathematical physics by the University of Paris professor. It contains an extraordinary variety of matter, not very well arranged, but its main purpose is to round off a natural philosophy course by including, or rather by reconciling, the mechanism of physical nature with the indeterminism of life and consciousness. To a certain extent this has been the intellectual problem since Leibniz. Prof. Boussinesq can scarcely be said to claim to bring forward anything distinctively new, but he discusses the problem with full scientific knowledge and keen philosophical interest.
Cours de physique mathématique de la Faculté des Sciences.
Prof.
J.
Boussinesq
Par. Compléments au tome 3: Conciliation du véritable déterminisme mécanique avec l'existence de la vie et de la liberté morale. Pp. xlviii + 217. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1922.) 30 francs.
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Cours de physique mathématique de la Faculté des Sciences. Nature 111, 356 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111356d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111356d0