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THERE are vogues in scientific literature as in other activities. There is evidence at the moment of an increasing interest both in the scientific past and in speculations as to what the future holds for us. As to the former, the influence of a new spirit of humanism in scientific teaching has brought into being on the theoretical side a History of Science Society in the United States, the membership of which extends to most European countries; and on the applied side we now have in England a flourishing, if young, Newcomen Society with a growing American branch. The movement, too, has spread to the universities. London has its new M.Sc. degree in the history and method of science, whilst many other univerr sities, both in Europe and the United States, include various courses of lectures by eminent scholars upon different phases of the history of science. Naturally this new spirit has found its expression in literature. For some years now there has appeared a succession of books dealing with special and general historical studies in science. The specialist, the general reader, and the schoolboy are all being catered for.
(1) A Brief Outline of the History of Science.
By J. G. F. Druce. Pp. iv + 151. (London: The Chemical News, Ltd., 1925.) 5s. net.
(2) A School History of Science.
By J. A. Cochrane. Pp. 144 + 8 plates. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1925.) 2s. 6d.
(3) Paris: or, The Future of War.
By Capt. B. H. Liddell Hart. (To-day and To-morrow Series.) Pp. 92. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1925.) 2s. 6d. net.
(4) The Future.
By A. M. Low. Pp. ix + 203 + 8 plates. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1925.) 5s. net.
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H., I. (1) A Brief Outline of the History of Science (2) A School History of Science (3) Paris: or, The Future of War (4) The Future. Nature 116, 669–670 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116669a0
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