Abstract
CONTEMPORARY events have given the study of the history of science a new and profound importance. It is evident that science is having cataclysmic effects on human society. The investigation of the nature and origin and possibilities of science, in addition to its advancement, has become an urgent necessity as a preliminary to any considered action for human betterment. The old antiquarian notions of the history of science have been submerged in a new living attitude to the subject, which has been forced forward by present needs.
A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century
By Charles Singer. Pp. xiv + 400. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1941.) 8s 6d. net.
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CROWTHER, J. A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century. Nature 148, 178–179 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148178a0
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