Word: scientificizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because it is a new cosmology interpreting philosophy and science in interreaction it is impossible to debate the truth of the ideas. The very interrelation of scientific discoveries and scientific plan precludes such an argument. It only remains to consider the usefulness of the work.
ALTHOUGH a scientific cosmology in not easily comprehended by the layman interested in the interdependence of the instruments and the methods of science. Professor Whitehead constructs his metaphysical explanation more vividly than might be supposed. "Science and the Modern World," which consists of an amplification of the Lowell Lectures for...
The author has been extremely apt in his choice of similes and metaphors to clarify the technical language of physics which necessarily permeate such a volume. The ordinary reader, therefore, begins to see the glimmer of the movements of mentality traced by Professor White-head from the seventeenth century to...
"For the scientific end. Ford has transported Edison's old laboratory there, it is also along this line that he has been garnering old machines and tools from every corner of the world. A great deal of his time has been spent, incidentally, in forming a typical New England village...
It is to an audience reasonably sophisticated that Maurice Browne and Robert Nichols address their play about the Shelleyan young physicist who discovers the secret of the atom, and causes an upheaval in the cabinet chamber at 10 Downing Street by his presentation of the consequences thereof. And perhaps in...