Science and the Modern World: Lowell Lectures, 1925
Science and the Modern World: Lowell Lectures, 1925
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科学与现代世界：洛厄尔讲座，1925 年
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10.1038/117847a0
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发表时间：
1926
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64.8
通讯作者：
S. Alexander
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作者：
S. Alexander
幸运的是，在二十世纪，科学和哲学开始在同一个人身上结合起来，就像它们在十七世纪发生致命的离婚之前一样。怀特海德教授的最新著作强烈要求每一个不满足于仅仅生活在自己特殊的环境中的科学家去阅读、重读和思考（如果可能的话，为此目的而拥有）。遵循常规’并关注整个科学的趋势和趋势；每一个渴望与科学思想保持联系的哲学家也是如此。它不仅是一件最重要的作品，而且也是一件非常美丽的作品。除了生动的文笔之外，读者的愉悦感还来自两个来源：一是怀特海教授对现代科学思想史划分的各个时代的快速描述；二是怀特海教授对现代科学思想史的描述。其次，从他在每个时代指出该时代的中心思想如何以贡献或缺陷的方式影响作者所设想的当前中心思想的方法来看。预言他的诗人写道：“当他工作时，勤劳的蜜蜂和我们一样计算着他的时间。”这一过程的一个结果是，虽然每个历史章节的大部分内容都是简单而明亮的阅读，但每个章节都包含几页需要最密切的关注，但要为戏剧性的结果进行累积的准备。《科学与现代世界：洛厄尔讲座》，1925年。作者：阿尔弗雷德·诺斯·怀特海德教授。页码。 xi + 296。（剑桥：大学出版社，1926 年。）12s。 6d.网。
IT is fortunate that in the twentieth century, science and philosophy are beginning to be united in the same person as they were in the seventeenth century before their fatal divorce occurred. Prof. Whitehead's latest book cries out to be read and re-read and meditated upon (and to that end if possible possessed) by every man of science who is not content to live merely in his own special‘; groove of routine ’ and is concerned in the trend and tendency of science as a whole; and by every philosopher who desires, as he must, to keep himself in contact with the thoughts of science. It is a work not only of the first importance but also of great beauty. Apart from the vivid writing, the reader's delight arises from two sources: in the first place, from the rapid characterisation of the various epochs into which Prof. Whitehead divides the history of modern scientific thought; and secondly, from his method of pointing out in each epoch just how the central thought of the epoch bears, in the way of contribution or of defect, upon the central thought of the present as the author conceives it. The poet prefiguring him wrote: ‘ and as he works, the industrious bee computes his time as well as we.’ One result of this procedure is that while the bulk of each historical chapter is simple and luminous reading, each chapter contains a few pages which demand the closest attention, but work with cumulative preparation towards the dramatic outcome.Science and the Modern World: Lowell Lectures, 1925.By Prof. Alfred North Whitehead. Pp. xi + 296. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1926.) 12s. 6d. net.