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THIS book is a somewhat emotional outburst written in an extremely unconventional style and evidently intended for the non-scientific reader. The author is a mathematical lecturer but he is violently opposed to ‘relativity’ ideas in physics and astronomy. He raises an interesting question too often overlooked by mathematicians Is not mathematics merely a shorthand of symbols? Are not the fundamental realities of space and time based on the structure of our own minds and not on facts independent of us but observed by us? Is there a fundamental distinction between what Bergson calls ‘duration’, which is real time, and mathematical time, which is a convenient fiction? Was T. H. Huxley right when he said that mathematics is not a science but a machine?
The Philosophy of Religion versus The Philosophy of Science:
an Exposure of the Worthlessness and Absurdity of some Conventional Conclusions of Modern Science. By Albert Eagle. Pp.352. (Manchester: The Author, University; London: Simpkin Marshall,Ltd., 1935.) 5s.
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M., E. [Short Notices]. Nature 139, 463 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139463a0
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