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January 28, 2003
© Stephen G. Brush

The History of Modern Science
A Guide to the Second Scientific Revolution, 1800-1950


Stephen G. Brush

Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988. xv + 544 pp. ISBN 0-8138-0883-9 (hardcover)
For current price and ordering information, go to www.isupress.edu

CONTENTS

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. EVOLUTION
  3. EVOLUTION OF RACES AND CULTURES
  4. GENDER AND GENETICS
  5. FREUD AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
  6. BEHAVIOR AND INTELLIGENCE
  7. ATOMS, ENERGY, AND STATISTICS
  8. ELECTROMAGNETISM AND RELATIVITY
  9. ATOMIC STRUCTURE
  10. THE EXPLOSION OF PHYSICS
  11. PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES
  12. ASTRONOMY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  13. ASTRONOMY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

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