Abstract
THE reputation of Sir James Jeans as an interpreter of science for the educated layman stands deservedly high. His wide interests and broad sympathies, aided by an exceptional power of exposition and a lucid and dignified prose style, have won him a very considerable circle of readers; and his writings have done much to substantiate the claim that science, in spite of the technicalities with which it is necessarily surrounded, has a cultural value, and some right to be regarded as one of the ‘‘humanities. The strength of the reaction provoked by his books from the philosophers on one hand and from the upholders of the strictly utilitarian conception of science on the other may be taken as a measure of his achievement.
The Growth of Physical Science
By Sir James Jeans. Pp. x + 364 + 14 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1947.) 12s. 6d. net.
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CROWTHER, J. The Growth of Physical Science. Nature 161, 260–261 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161260a0
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