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Great Thinking

Nature volume 183, pages 1218–1219 (1959)Cite this article

The Physicist's Conception of Nature

By Prof. Werner Heisenberg. Pp. 192. (London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers), Ltd., 1958.) 16s. net.

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Science Theory and Man

By Erwin Schroedinger. Formerly published under the title “Science and the Human Temperament”. Pp. 223. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1957.) 18s. net.

Mind and Matter

By Prof. Erwin Schrödinger. (The Tarner Lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, in October 1956.) Pp. vii + 104. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1958.) 13s. 6d. net.

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