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Whitehead: Science and the Modern World

How modern science grew from older beliefs about order in nature, and what its picture of the world leaves out.

✎ Being written
Volume
55 of the 1990 set
Author
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)
Work
Science and the Modern World 1925

Ideas: Mathematics as nature's language Telling the past Faith and reason

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