A Treasury of Science

776 pp. 8 1/4 x 6. CONTENTS: Prefaces; Part 1. Introduction/On Sharing in the Conquests of Science - Harlow Shapley; Part 2. Science and the Scientist: The Wonder of the World - Sir J. Arthur Thomson and Partrick Geddes; We Are All Scientists - T.H. Huxley; Scientists Are Lonely Men - Oliver La Farge; Turtle Eggs for Agassiz - Dallas Lore Sharp; The Aims and Methods of Science - Rogert Bacon, Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington, Ivan Pavlov, and Alan Gregg; Part 3. The Physical World: A. The Heavens: A Theory that the Earth Moves Around the Sun - Nicholas Copernicus; Proof that the Earth Moves - Galileo Galilei; The Orderly Universe - Forest Ray Moulton; The Milky Way and Beyond - Arthur Eddington; Radio Stars - A.C.B. Lovell; B. The Earth: A Young Man Looking At Rocks - Hugh Miller; Geological Change - Sir Archibald Geike; Earthquakes - What Are They? - Reverend James B. Macelwane; Last Days of St. Pierre - Fairfax Downey; Pin-Pointing The Past With the Cosmic Clock - Richard Foster Flint; What Makes the Weather - Wolfgang Langewiesche; C. Matter, Energy, Physical Law: Newtoniana; Discoveries - Sir Isaac Newton; Mathematics, The Mirror of Civilization - Lancelot Hogben; Experiments and Ideas - Benjamin Franklin; Exploring the Atom - Sir James Jeans; The Discovery of Radium - Eve Curie; Electronics Everywhere - A.M. Low; Giant Brains - Edmund Callis Berkeley; Some Early Pioneers In Chemistry - Stephen Miall & L.M. Miall; The Foundations of Chemical Industry - Robert E. Rose; Man's Synthetic Future - Roger Adams; Space, Time and Einstein - Paul R. Heyl; Part 4. The World of Life: A. The Riddle of Life: The Characteristics of Organisms - Sir Arthur J. Thomson & Patrick Geddes; Leeuwenhoek: First of the Microbe Hunters - Paul de Kruif; The Origin of Life - George Wald; B. The Spectacle of Life: On Being the Right Size - J.B.S. Haldane; Parasitism and Degeneration - David Starr Jordan & Vernon Lyman Kellogg; Flowering Earth - Donald Culross Peattie; A Lobster, or, The Study of Zoology - T.H. Huxley; The Life of the Simplest Animals - David Starr Jordan & Lyman Kellogg; Secrets of the Ocean - William Beebe; The Warrior Ants - Caryl P. Haskins; The Vampire Bat - Raymond L. Ditmars and Arthur M. Greenhall; Ancestors - Gustave Eckstein; Darwinisms; Drawin and "The Origin of Species" - Sir Arthur Keith; Gregor Mendel and His Work - Hugo Iltis; The Courtship of Animals - Julian Huxley; Magic Acres - Alfred Toombs; Part Five. The World of Man: A. From Ape to Civilization: The Evidence of the Descent of Man from Some Lower Form - Charles Darwin; The Upstart of the Animal Kingdom - Earnest A. Hooton; Evolution Revised - Ruth Moore; Lessons in Living from the Stone Age - Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Racial Characters of the Body - Sir Arthur Keith; B. The Human Machine: Vesalius and Harvey: The Founding of Modern Anatomy and Physiology - Michael Foster; The Only Contemporary Character Sketch of William Harvey - John Aubrey; Biography of the Unborn - Margaret Shea Gilbert; How the Human Body is Studied - Sir Arthur Keith; Variation on a Theme by Darwin - Julian Huxley; C. The Conquest of Disease: The Hippocratic Oath; Hippocrates, the Greek - The End of Magic - Logan Clendening; An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae - Edward Jenner; the History of the Kine Pox - Benjamin Waterhouse; Louis Pasteur and the Conquest of Rabies - Rene Vallery-Radot; Chemotherapy - Alexander Fleming; The New Science of Surgery - Frank G. Slaughter; D. Man's Mind: Thinking - James Harvey Robinson; Imagination Creatrix - John Livingston Lowes; The Psychology of Sigmund Freud - A.A. Brill; Part 6. The Rocket and the Atom: A. Rockets, Missiles and Space: Reaction Motors: How they Work and Some Experiments with Them - G. Edward Pendray; We Learn A Lesson - Milton Rosen; A Shot Around the World - Arthur C. Clarke; Life in Sputnik - P. Isakov; Is There Life On Other Worlds? - Sir James Jeans; B. The Power of the Atom: An End or A Beginning?: Atomic