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...graduate of Antioch College, he received his Ph. D. from Harvard in 1968. He is the author of Heat and Life: The History of the Theary of Animal Heat and a co-editor of A Treasury of Scientific Prose, a Nineteenth Century Anthology...
...closing piece, was a bit of an anti-climax. It lacked the brilliant individual performances of the leads in American in Paris and the general solidness of The Comedy. It was nevertheless a delightfully funny piece. The music is an orchestral arrangement by Kay of Gottschalk's late nineteenth century minstrel songs...
...that scientific truths illuminate some real world, and were not merely postulates of convenience. Yet Einstein's own work, like Loeb's contributed to the overthrow of that position. In 1927, the physicist Percy Bridgman questioned how it was possible that Newtonian theory, which had been accepted throughout the nineteenth century, could be overthrown. He answered, in brief, that Einstein had replaced Newton's absolute concepts--absolute space, absolute motion, absolute time--with concepts defined in terms of particular observers, such as time and length relative to an observer. The truth arrived at by these observers were necessarily more limited...
Mathematics had been partially unshackled from the physical world by the discovery of non-Euclidean geometrics in the nineteenth century, but the publication of Principia Mathematica in 1908 burst the chains. This three-volume monument by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead expressed the fundamental concepts of mathematics in terms of still simpler concepts of logic, and showed that mathematics may be viewed as a game of manipulating symbols according to rules. Since mathematicians can adopt any rules they want, the truths proved in mathematics can have no necessary connection with the world outside of mathematics...
...sense of humor. He also puts on more-or-less regular exhibits in his gallery room. His present show is of Max Swartz, who does pop art pictures of the Beatles--need more be said? However, in January, he has scheduled what should be an outstanding exhibition of nineteenth century painters, including Bierstadt and Davies...