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THIS is a valuable and interesting, though somewhat difficult, book of which the avowed purpose, as we are told on the cover, is to “free empirical science from the ghosts of the rationalistic past which still haunt and mislead its progress”. It is well worth reading for the variety of thoughts which it expresses, although one is bound to say at the end that the solution offered is not as clear as the apprehension of the difficulties which surround its approach.
History and Science
A Study of the Relation of Historical and Theoretical Knowledge. By Hugh Miller. Pp. xi + 201. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press; London: Cambridge University Press, 1939.) 12s. net.
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MARVIN, F. History and Science. Nature 146, 316 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146316a0
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