Abstract
THIS is no ordinary book. Like its predecessor, “Mathematics for the Million”, it is a portent of a new understanding and a new purpose in science. We have had in plenty popular expositions of scientific discoveries ; we have had attempts at the analysis of the history of science ; we have had essays on its social implications ; here we have all three together. They gain immensely from being presented as a unity and worked out by a single mind. In this new primer of one thousand pages, Prof. Hogben sets out to teach, to chronicle and to preach the gospel of science.
Science for the Citizen:
a Self-Educator based on the Social Background of Scientific Discovery. By Lancelot Hogben. (Primers for the Age of Plenty.) Pp. 1120. (London: G. Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1938.) 12s. 6d. net.
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B., J. Science for the Citizen. Nature 141, 1075–1078 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1411075a0
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