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AS its title indicates, this book covers a wide field of scientific achievement. The author describes it as “an attempt to show to the student the picture of science as an active growing organism”. It is consonant with this aim that original work should be readily available, and this has been done by appending, to each of the eighteen chapters, a series of extracts from the writings of the period described. As may be expected, the author's wide knowledge of contemporary scientific literature is apparent in the interesting and useful selections which result.
Science, Past and Present
By Dr. F. Sherwood Taylor. Pp. viii + 275 + 22 plates. (London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1945.) 10s. 6d. net.
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ANTHONY, H. Science, Past and Present. Nature 157, 144 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157144b0
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