Aspects of science (Registro nro. 117713)
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| LC control number | 23012662 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | Q |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sullivan, J. W. N. |
| Fuller form of name | (John William Navin), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1886-1937 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Aspects of science |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-10-05 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The interest of science -- A physicist on physics -- Science and culture -- James Clerk Maxwell -- Assumptions -- On learning science -- The entente cordiale -- Popular science -- Patient plodders -- The amateur astronomer -- Scientific citizens -- The sceptic and the spirits -- The scientific mind -- The scientific contribution -- Theories and personalities -- The ideal scientific man -- Parallel straight lines -- The new scientific horizon -- The hope of science -- The return of mystery -- Mathematics and music -- Human testimony. |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Tim Lindell, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Aspects of science" by J. W. N. Sullivan is a collection of essays on science written in the early 20th century. Framed from a humanistic and aesthetic point of view, it explores how scientific ideas emerge, evolve, and influence culture while clarifying methods, theories, and assumptions for the general reader. Expect reflective critiques of how science is pursued, taught, and popularized, alongside portraits of scientific minds and the philosophical implications of modern physics. The opening of this collection sets out the premise that scientific ideas have histories and serve human needs, arguing that theories confer order, practical power, and aesthetic satisfaction even while remaining provisional. It explains scientific method as a selective, law-building enterprise whose “truth” rests on shared judgment but whose “meaning” is personal and artistic, citing the physicist’s perspective (via Norman Campbell) and the growing gap between specialists and the public as language grows technical. Through cultural reflections and a striking portrait of Maxwell, the essays show science as intuitive and imaginative—sometimes mystical—yet disciplined. A sequence on assumptions dismantles inherited certainties (circular planetary orbits, naïve probability, Euclidean space and time, the elastic æther, and anthropomorphic readings of animals), showing how reasonableness shifts with evidence. Pieces on learning and popularizing science urge historical teaching and reading original memoirs, and critique both suave synthesizers of science with philosophy and religion and marvel-mongering “popular” accounts. Overall, the start maps science’s aims, methods, and misreadings while inviting non-specialists into its human context. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1923 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Science |
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| Uncontrolled term | English essays -- 20th century |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/aspectsofscience00sull_0/page/n5/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/aspectsofscience00sull_0/page/n5/mode/2up</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76989">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76989</a> |
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