Book:Martin Gardner/The Sacred Beetle and Other Great Essays in Science
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Martin Gardner: The Sacred Beetle and Other Great Essays in Science
Published $\text {1984}$, Oxford University Press
- ISBN 0-19-286047-X
Revised edition of Great Essays in Science from 1957
Contents
- Preface
- Prologue: FRANCIS BACON
- The Sphinx (1609)
- CHARLES DARWIN
- Recapitulation and Conclusion (1859)
- JOHN DEWEY
- The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy (1909)
- STEPHEN JAY GOULD
- Nonmoral Nature (1982)
- WILLIAM JAMES
- The Problem of Being (1911)
- HAVELOCK ELLIS
- What Makes a Woman Beautiful? (1905)
- JEAN HENRI FABRE
- The Sacred Beetle (1918)
- GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON
- The Logic of Elfland (1908)
- CARL SAGAN
- Can We Know the Universe? Reflections on a Grain of Salt (1979)
- JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH
- The Colloid and the Crystal (1950)
- JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET
- The Barbarism of "Specialization" (1932)
- THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
- Science and Culture (1893)
- JOHN BURROUGHS
- Science and Literature (1889)
- ISAAC ASIMOV
- Science and Beauty (1983)
- ERNEST NAGEL
- Automation (1955)
- JONATHAN NORTON LEONARD
- Other-Worldly Life (1953)
- J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
- Physics in the Contemporary World (1955)
- ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
- Religion and Science (1925)
- JOHN DOS PASSOS
- Proteus (1930)
- JULIAN HUXLEY
- An Essay on Bird-Mind (1923)
- ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON
- The Decline of Determinism (1934)
- ALDOUS HUXLEY
- Science in the Brave New World (1932)
- RACHEL CARSON
- The Sunless Sea (1951)
- MAURICE MAETERLINCK
- The Nuptial Flight (1901)
- H. G. WELLS
- The New Source of Energy (1914)
- Science and Ultimate Truth (1931)
- LAURA FERMI
- Success (1954)
- SAMUEL GOUDSMIT
- The Gestapo in Science (1947)
- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
- Pan's Pipes (1876)
- SIGMUND FREUD
- Dreams of the Death of Beloved Persons (1900)
- BERTRAND RUSSELL
- The Science to Save Us from Science (1950)
- The Greatness of Albert Einstein (1955)
- ALBERT EINSTEIN
- $E = mc^2$ (1946)
- LEWIS THOMAS
- Seven Wonders (1983)
- Index