Abstract
PROF. A. M. Low is well known for his presentation of scientific and technical advances in popular terms. In the present volume, he has attempted a survey in descriptive terms of recent developments in many fields. In successive chapters he discusses sources of power, rays, science and war, materials of industry, transport, measurement, medicine, the sea, exploration of the universe, weather, communications, exploration, the cinema, and science and the criminal. Dr. Julian Huxley provides a chapter on evolution, Dr. H. Spencer Jones one on the planets, and Capt. F. Kingdon Ward two on food plants and 'living' fossils respectively ; while C. G. Grey deals with aeroplanes in war, Capt. G. E. T. Eyston with speed records and Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe with flying. The forty-seven plates illustrate outstanding features of the articles they accompany, and there is a useful index.
Science Looks Ahead
Prof.
A. M.
Low
By; with Contributions by Dr. Julian Huxley, C. G. Grey, G. E. T. Eyston, F. Kingdon Ward, Dr. H. Spencer Jones, Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe. Pp. 640 + 47 plates. (London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1942.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Science Looks Ahead. Nature 150, 507 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150507c0
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