Progress of Science in the century

Abstract

IN a book bearing the present title it is surely unfortunate to find that progress in one branch of science, and that certainly not the least important, is wholly ignored. Yet while chemistry, physics, astronomy, geology, physiology, psychology, and even sociology each has a separate chapter devoted to it, not a word is said about the remarkable developments that have taken place in mathematical science during the century. The changes which recent times have witnessed in regard to our conceptions of the notion of space are certainly no less remarkable, and are quite as capable of being outlined in a popular work as the kinetic theory of gases or developments of theories of the ether.

Progress of Science in the century.

By Prof. J. Arthur Thomson. Pp. x + 536. (London: W. and R. Chambers, Ltd., 1906.) Price 5s. net.