Background to modern science : ten lectures at Cambridge arranged by the History of science committee, 1936 / by F.M. Cornford, Sir A.S. Eddington, Sir W. Dampier [and others] ; edited by Joseph Needham and Walter Pagel.

Cambridge [England] : The University Press, 1938.

xii, 243 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Greek natural philosophy and modern science, by F. M. Cornford.-From Aristotle to Galilco, by Sir W. C. Dampier.-Forty years of physics, by Lord Rutherford.-Forty years of crystal physics, by W. L. Bragg.-Forty years of atomic theory, by F. W. Aston.-Forty years of astronomy, by Sir Arthur Eddington.-Forty years of physiology and pathology, by J. A. Ryle.-Forty years of parasitology and tropical medicine, by G. H. F. Nuttall.-Forty years of evolution theory, by R. C. Punnett.-Forty years of genetics, by J. B. S. Haldane.