A Century Of Science
by John Fiske
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About this eBook
- Author
- Fiske, John, 1842-1901
- Title
- A Century of Science, and Other Essays
- Credits
- Produced by David Garcia, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- AC: General Works: Collections, Series, Collected works, Pamphlets
- Subject
- Cambridge (Mass.) -- Description and travel
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 40590
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40590
- Release Date
- August 27, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A CENTURY OF SCIENCE
- 2.JOHN FISKE
- 3.DEDICATORY EPISTLE TO THOMAS SERGEANT PERRY, — PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE KEIO GIJUKU, AT TOKYO.
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.A CENTURY OF SCIENCE
- 6.I — A CENTURY OF SCIENCE [3]
- 7.II — THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION: ITS SCOPE AND PURPORT [5]
- 8.III — EDWARD LIVINGSTON YOUMANS [13]
- 9.IV — THE PART PLAYED BY INFANCY IN THE EVOLUTION OF MAN [16]
- 10.V — THE ORIGINS OF LIBERAL THOUGHT IN AMERICA [17]
- 11.VI — SIR HARRY VANE [22]
- 12.VII — THE ARBITRATION TREATY
- 13.VIII — FRANCIS PARKMAN [25]
- 14.IX — EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN
- 15.X — CAMBRIDGE AS VILLAGE AND CITY [27]
- 16.XI — A HARVEST OF IRISH FOLK-LORE
- 17.XII — GUESSING AT HALF AND MULTIPLYING BY TWO
- 18.XIII — FORTY YEARS OF BACON-SHAKESPEARE FOLLY [36]
- 19.XIV — SOME CRANKS AND THEIR CROTCHETS
- 20.NOTE — AN ACCOUNT OF THE ADONI-SHOMO COMMUNITY
- 21.INDEX
- 22.FOOTNOTES:
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