Abstract
1. The origins of modern science 2. Mathematics as an element in the history of thought 3. The century of genius 4. The eighteenth century 5. The Romantic reaction 6. The nineteenth century 7. Relativity 8. The quantum theory 9. Science and philosophy 10. Abstraction 11. God 12. Religion and science 13. Requisites for social progress Index.
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N. Bond Fleming
(2000).
Science and the Modern World.
, 3-12.
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004495692_008
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- 10.1163/9789004495692_008