The Advancing Front of Science by George William Gray
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Overview: The discoveries of our decade in science recall “the golden years of 1895-1903,” when with the discovery of the vacuum tube, radioactivity, the electron, and radium, “physics stirred from its long lethargy and sounded the call which echoed far and awakeningly along all the frontiers of thought.” The chapters of this book are an account of some comparable recent advances. They present the current developments in scientific research in convenient compass, and in terms understandable to the average reader.
Here are important developments in our knowledge of the skies, of a atom and molecules, of the living matter of cells and tissues – findings which are providing bases for further advances, for reinterpretation, for the new view of tomorrow. Here is a picture of man embattled against certain unknowns of his Universe. The story is illuminated with such personal touches, biographical details, and laboratory asides as seem of special interest.
Far-reaching discoveries in such fields as biology, atomic physics, and geology are now seen to supplement our new understanding of the make-up of the world and our own existence in it. Progress in the design of precision instruments have made possible new and more revealing research. The book deals with these little-known but vastly significant advances. It explores what may literally be called the borderlands of science.
The reader will understand anew through these pages the spirit, the purpose, the ingenious methods, and the amazing successes which make the research laboratory the most romantic spot on earth at the present time-and perhaps the most significant.
Published 1937 by Whittlesey House
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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