Man and his Universe

Abstract

THE author of this book has set forth in nontechnical language a series of pictures of man and the universe as seen by our primitive ancestors, by men of the Middle Ages, and by those who lived during the Renaissance, the Darwinian epoch, at the end of the nineteenth century, and finally in 1930. We may say at once that, when reconciled to the occasionally journalistic style, the reader can study the book with profit and interest. We may criticise points of historical detail and feel unconvinced by some of the lessons the author draws from modern science, but we must admit that on the whole the work is well done, and that at all events it makes a good story.

Man and his Universe.

John Langdon-Davies. Pp. xviii + 334 + 14 plates. (London: Harper and Bros., 1930.) 16s. net.