Debates on the decline of science.

New York : Arno Press, 1975.

220 pages in various pagings : portrait ; 22 cm.

Reprint of Review of reflexions on the decline of science in England and on some of its causes by Charles Babbage, by D. Brewster, first published in 1830; On the alleged decline of science in England, by G. Moll, first published in 1831; A letter to the Board of Visitors of the Greenwich Royal Observatory in reply to the calumnies of Mr. Babbage at their meeting in June 1853, and in his book entitled The exposition of 1851, by R. Sheepshanks, first published in 1860; and Thoughts on the degradation of science in England, by F.R.S., first published in 1842

Includes bibliographic references