Abstract
MR. LYNCH covers a wide ground in his book on science dealing successively with mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, physiology, medicine, psychology, and ethics. The modern sciences are so highly developed and specialised that it is unusual for a single writer to be able to discuss competently the technical details of more than a few sciences. Mr. Lynch considers that this tendency to specialisation requires correction, and with a laudable courage he attempts to put his principles into practice, mastering at the same time the technicalities of each science and explaining them in language which is intelligible to all. While, however, his book contains a great deal of scientific matter, its central theme does not appear to be so much the particular discoveries or the development of science as a criticism of current views as to the basic principles and methods of science. It is this philosophical theme which gives unity to what is otherwise a series of discursive essays.
Science: Leading and Misheading
By Arthur Lynch. Pp. 376 (London: John Murray, 1927.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Science: Leading and Misheading . Nature 120, 469–470 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120469a0
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