Progress in science [Unknown Binding] Sumner, William Leslie

 

Item Condition: Used; Acceptable

cover is damaged. See images. Also title page is missing.

FOREWORD
THIS book, which it is hoped will be the first of a series on
scientific discoveries and their applications to life in the
post-war world, is adapted from lectures which the author
has been privileged to give to men and women serving
with H.M. Forces in many parts of the country. It is a
book for the layman interested in science rather than for
the specialist.
No attempt has been made to produce a complete and
connected account of recent thought in science, indeed
it is necessary to remind readers that the present chapters
deal with some 'technical' aspects of science. A few plums
have been picked from the scientific cake, and there is
always the danger that one may forget what the cake
really is.
Nevertheless, it is becoming not only desirable but a
matter on which rests the future of civilization that every
one should know something of the methods and results
of science, and what can be done to use them to the com-
mon good in the solution of the complex problems which
now await us.