Tkc PATH o SCIENCE The Helix of History TLe PATH of CIENCE By C. E. KENNETH MEES, D. Sc., F. R. S. Vice President in charge of Research Eastman Kodak Company Rochester, New York with the co-operation of JOHN R. BAKER, M. A., D. Phil., D. Sc. Lecturer in Zoology in the University of Oxford, England New York JOHN WILEY SONS, Inc. London CHAPMAN HALL, Limited COPYRIGHT, 1946 BY CHARLES EDWARD KENNETH MEES All Rights Reserved This book or any part thereof must not be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the ...
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Tkc PATH o SCIENCE The Helix of History TLe PATH of CIENCE By C. E. KENNETH MEES, D. Sc., F. R. S. Vice President in charge of Research Eastman Kodak Company Rochester, New York with the co-operation of JOHN R. BAKER, M. A., D. Phil., D. Sc. Lecturer in Zoology in the University of Oxford, England New York JOHN WILEY SONS, Inc. London CHAPMAN HALL, Limited COPYRIGHT, 1946 BY CHARLES EDWARD KENNETH MEES All Rights Reserved This book or any part thereof must not be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the publisher. THIRD PRINTING, FEBRUARY, 1948 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The present should retain its true proportion a moment between an infinite past and a hurrying future. Time and Chance, JOAN EVANS London, 1943 PREFACE In 1943 I was invited to accept the Hitchcock professorship at the University of California. The Hitchcock professor is expected to give a course of public lectures, and the subject selected was the development of science and its relation to the history of society. These lectures have been expanded into this book with the purpose of presenting the development of modern science against the background of history. There is not room for a complete history of science in a book of this type, but Chapters V, VI, and VII are intended to give an account of the growth of ideas in the three major sciences so that the reader can understand how the ideas of modern science have developed. My thanks are due to many friends for criticism and assist ance and especially to Dr. John R. Baker, who wrote Chapter VII, The Growth of Biological Ideas, and whose criticism of the whole manuscript as it progressed has been most valuable. Although the book islargely historical, Dr. Baker and I are not professional historians of science. Dr. Baker is an investigator in pure science, and I am a director of industrial scientific research. It is hoped that our active participation in the advance of science and technology has given us a view point that compensates for the lack of historical training. C. E. K. MEES Rochester, N. Y. 1946
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