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캠브리지대학교와 하버드대학교의 교수가 쓴책으로 목차및 본문의 내용대로 18세기 와 19세기의 현대의 과학에 대해서 기술. 책내용은 아래 목차와 같음. SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD LOWELL LECTURES, 1925 ________________________________________ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO . DALLAS ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. BOMBAY . CALCUTTA . MADRAS THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO ________________________________________ SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD LOWELL LECTURES, 1925 BY ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD F.R.S., Sc.D. (Cambridge), Hon. D.Sc. (Manchester), Hon. LL.D. (St. Andrews) FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE AND PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1925 All rights reserved ________________________________________ ICOPYRIGHT, 1925. BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. ________________________________________ Set up and printed. Published October, 1925. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE FERRIS PRINTING COMPANY 책내용. 		 I.	THE ORIGINS OF MODERN SCIENCE	1 		 II.	MATHEMATICS AS AN ELEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THOUGHT	28 		 III.	THE CENTURY OF GENIUS	55 		 IV.	THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY	80 		 V.	THE ROMANTIC REACTION	105 		 VI.	THE NINETEENTH CENTURY	134 		 VII.	RELATIVITY	160 		 VIII.	THE QUANTUM THEORY	181 		 IX.	SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY	193 		 X.	ABSTRACTION	219 		 XI.	GOD	242 		 XII.	RELIGION AND SCIENCE	252 		 XIII.	REQUISITES FOR SOCIAL PROGRESS	270

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PREFACE The present book embodies a study of some aspects of Western culture during the past three centuries, in so far as it has been influenced by the development of science. This study has been guided by the conviction that the mentality of an epoch springs from the view of the world which is, in fact, dominant in the educated sections of the communities in question. There may be more than one such scheme, corresponding to cultural divisions. The various human interests which suggest cosmologies, and also are influenced by them, are science, aesthetics, ethics, religion. In every age each of these topics suggests a view of the world. In so far as the same set of people are swayed by all, or more than one, of these interests, their effective outlook will be the joint production from these sources. But each age has it dominant preoccupation; and, during the three centuries in question, the cosmology derived from science has been asserting itself at the expense of older points of view with their origins elsewhere. Men can be provincial in time, as well as in place. We may ask ourselves whether the scientific mentality of the modern world in the immediate past is not a successful example of such provincial limitation. Philosophy, in one of its functions, is the critic of cosmologies. It is its function to harmonise, refashion, and justify divergent intuitions as to the nature of things. It has to insist on the scrutiny of the ultimate ideas, and on the retention of the whole of the evidence xin shaping our cosmological scheme. Its business is to render explicit, and―so far as may be―efficient, a process which otherwise is unconsciously performed without rational tests. Bearing this in mind, I have avoided the introduction of a variety of abstruse detail respecting scientific advance. What is wanted, and what I have striven after, is a sympathetic study of main ideas as seen from the inside. If my view of the function of philosophy is correct, it is the most effective of all the intellectual pursuits. It builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches. It is the architect of the buildings of the spirit, and it is also their solvent:―and the spiritual precedes the material. Philosophy works slowly. Thoughts lie dormant for ages; and then, almost suddenly as it were, mankind finds that they have embodied themselves in institutions. This book in the main consists of a set of eight Lowell Lectures delivered in the February of 1925. These lectures with some slight expansion, and the subdivision of one lecture into Chapters VII and VIII, are here printed as delivered. But some additional matter has been added, so as to complete the thought of the book on a scale which could not be included within that lecture course. Of this new matter, the second chapter―‘Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought’―was delivered as a lecture before the Mathematical Society of Brown University, Providence, R. I.; and the twelfth chapter―‘Religion and Science’―formed an address delivered in the Phillips Brooks House at Harvard, and xiis to be published in the August number of the Atlantic Monthly of this year (1925). Harvard University, June 29, 1925.

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