From Euclid To Eddington: A Study Of Conceptions Of The External World - Edmund Whittaker
Dover (1981)
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This book represents the substance of the Tarner Lectures of 1947, in which I attempted to trace the development of theories in natural philosophy from the rediscovery of Euclid by Western scholars to the prescnt time. The lectures were not intended to be a summary of present-day knowledge in physics, nor yet a chronicle of particular discoveries, but rather a history of the evolution of concepts and principles, especially such as have provoked long controversies, in some cases still unsettled. I have tried to disengage the essential ideas from the intricacy of the mathematical presentation.

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