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...writes mostly of quasi-biographical works on great scientists in every important century. Other reviews are grouped into two sections dealing with subjects in a specific historical setting. One treats of Greek education in antiquity, early Chinese civilization, and other pre-Newtonian subjects. The other slips into a discussion of specifically modern crises and attitudes in science; Pascal and Maxwell give way to Bohm, Schrodinger, and Charles Darwin A long and careful piece on Einstein near the end of the first volume signals the shift from traditional to contemporary concerns. At the close of the second is a melange...
...scientific orchestra that had been tuning up in sections for centuries, Newton's law of gravity brought the exhilarating unity of a conductor's baton. The music of the spheres, in which the ancients believed literally, at last existed symbolically in the harmony of a Newtonian universe under the common rule of certain natural laws. But the post-Newtonian universe has again become something of a mystery, notes Koestler. He quotes the late Sir James Jeans, who suggested that "the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine...
...honorable mentions went to Judith A. Curtis '61 for her essay, "An Inquiry into the Coexistence of Science and Poetry," and to Carla Washburne '59 for her essay, "Dialogue Concerning Newtonian Synthesis...
Triangle Squared. When François Marie Arouet (Voltaire) fled to England in 1726 (he was in trouble with the police over a challenge to a duel), he discovered a new world-Pope, Swift and the Duchess of Marlborough. He was at home in the universe of Newtonian mathematics and adored everything English. Three years later he went back to France a dedicated Newtonian ("It is he." says Author Mitford, "who preserved for us the story of Newton and the apple") and a respectful admirer of "an English author who lived 150 years ago called Shakespeare ... He was quite...
...assumption is that the teaching of high school physics has not changed since the turn of the century. With each technical advance, the Committee claims, a little of the philosophy of 1900 has given way and new skills appended to the curriculum. The result is a hash of abstracted Newtonian concepts, television sets, doorbells, and assorted gimmicks...