Book
Science and the modern world
15 chapters, about 77,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.
Chapters
- PREFACE 600 words
- THE ORIGINS OF MODERN SCIENCE 6,900 words
- CHAPTER II 7,000 words
- THE CENTURY OF GENIUS 6,800 words
- THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 6,500 words
- THE ROMANTIC REACTION 6,300 words
- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 6,800 words
- RELATIVITY 5,500 words
- THE QUANTUM THEORY 3,100 words
- SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY 7,000 words
- ABSTRACTION 5,800 words
- GOD 2,400 words
- RELIGION AND SCIENCE 4,700 words
- REQUISITES FOR SOCIAL PROGRESS 6,100 words
- INDEX 1,400 words
Ideas discussed in this book
- Abstraction
- Algebra
- Algorithm
- Atom
- Biology
- Cell (biology)
- Chemist
- Classification
- Event (philosophy)
- Fragment (logic)
- History of philosophy
- Integer
- LOOM (ontology)
- Materialism
- Mathematics
- Mechanism (philosophy)
- Mental event
- Molecule
- Physics
- Religion
- Struggle for existence
- Subjectivism
- Theorem
- Theory of relativity
- Wave
- World religions