Abstract
MR. DAMPIER-WHETHAM, in writing a general history of science, has undertaken what is, strictly, an impossible task. It is therefore very easy for any critic who cares to spend a day or two in a library to that end to pick holes in matters of detail. Taking the book as a whole, as in the first instance it should be, it is a fine and bold piece of work. The narrative is always clear and concise and the sequence orderly; it never degenerates into the dismal catalogue of names and dates which sometimes masquerades as the history of science. The mutual relations between scientific discovery and other phases of contemporary thought are generally well brought out, particularly the relations between science and philosophy.
A History of Science, and its Relations with Philosophy and Religion.
By William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham. Pp. xxi + 514. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1929.) 18s. net.
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RITCHIE, A. A History of Science, and its Relations with Philosophy and Religion . Nature 125, 4–6 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125004a0
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