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Romance in science: Lectures from a course called “Browse”

Romance in science: Lectures from a course called “Browse”

by Bessie Irving Miller

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Author
Miller, Bessie Irving, 1884-1931
Title
Romance in science : Lectures from a course called "Browse"
Original Publication
Boston: The Stratford Company, 1924.
Credits
Vicki Parnell, Fay Dunn, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Language
English
LoC Class
Q: Science
Subject
Science
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 79853
Release Date
October 24, 2026
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.ROMANCE IN SCIENCE Lectures from a course called “Browse”
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.Untitled
  4. 4.Preface
  5. 5.Preface to the First Typed Edition
  6. 6.Members of Mathematics XVIII, called “Browse,” 1923.
  7. 7.Table of Contents
  8. 8.Browse (In which duty is guaranteed to be omitted.)
  9. 9.The Scientific Method
  10. 10.Law — FOOTNOTES:
  11. 11.The Fourth Dimension
  12. 12.The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry
  13. 13.Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation — Outline of and Comments on Schlick’s Book.
  14. 14.Transformations
  15. 15.“The Human Significance of Mathematics” — FOOTNOTES:
  16. 16.Appendix Volume XV., November, 1922, Number 7 ROMANCE IN SCIENCE An Experimental Course Offered by a Department of Mathematics⁠ [2] By Professor Bessie Irving Miller Rockford College — READING LIST FOR “BROWSING” In the Spring of 1922 Mathematics XVIII (speaking technically) — Astronomy (A) — Art and Music ( Am ) — Chemistry (C) — Biology (B) — D (This includes those books which are different or impossible to classify.) — Geology (G) — Mathematics (M) — Physics (P) — Psychology (P3) — TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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