Abstract
TWO addresses on the origin and methods of progress in biology and ontheory and experiment in the exact sciences, delivered in September 1936by Prof. Hartmann of Berlin and Prof. Gerlach of Munich before the Gesellschaft Naturforscher und Ärzte have been issued in pamphlet form, the second with considerable additions extending it to 49 pages as against 21 for the first. The aim of both addresses is to show that the methods bywhich science is advanced are the same in principle in all fields. In biology the methods are illustrated by the development of the chromosome theory of heredity, and in physics by the ways in which the detailed study of the physical memoirs of the last hundred years rather than philosophical discussions have made progress possible. Many examples of the way in which theory and experiment have reacted fruitfully on each other andstimulated growth are given by Prof. Gerlach, some taken from the newer, but more from classical physics.
Naturwissenschaftliche Erkenntniss und ihre Methoden
M.
Hartmann
W.
Gerlach
. Pp. v + 70. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1937.) 2.40 gold marks.
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Naturwissenschaftliche Erkenntniss und ihre Methoden. Nature 141, 954 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141954c0
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