Author: Eric Temple Bell
Paperback: 425 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (September 10, 1991)
Language: English
The topic of this book is described in the first few pages of the opening chapter. It concerns what may be the least expected turn of scientific thought in twenty-five centuries.Should this return to a remote past-for that is what the most recent philosophy of science really is-be generally accepted,our descendants a few generations hence will look back on us and our science as incredibly unenlightened. Not much of the proposed substitute for the scientific method as commonly understood has been discussed outside professional scientific circles. An untechnical account of the origins and progress of the new approach to nature may therefore be of interest to those who do not make their livings at science. It will appear that the new and the old are strangely alike.
For valuable criticisms and suggestions I am indebted to many friends, professional and other. Though I alone am responsible for what finally got written down, I should like especially to thank Eleanor Bohnenblust, Frederic Bohnenblust, Mary Mayo, and Las16 Zechmeister for their patience and helpfulness with it all, and Nina Jo Reeves for preparing the manuscript for publication. For permission to reprint the excerpts that appeared in Scripta Mathematica, I am indebted to the editors of Scripta.
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