92 Methods and Philosophy 



philosophy of science. — Enghshed under the title: A survey of physics (191 p., 

 London 1925). — Expanded edition entitled: Wege zur physikalischen Erkenntnis 

 i2nd ed., 1934; 4th, Leipzig 1944). 



1931: The universe in the light of modern physics (110 p., London). — Increased 

 ed. (140 p., London 1937). 



1932: Where is science going? (222 p., New^ York). 



1936: The philosophy of physics (128 p., London). 



Planck was the discoverer of the quanta theory; one of the founders of modern 

 physics. Portrait in Isis (38, facing p. 135). 



Poincar^, Henri ( 1854-1912) : 



1908: La science et I'hypothese (Paris). 



1909: La valeur de la science (Paris). 



1909: Science et methode (Paris). 



English translation of the three volumes by George Bruce Halsted, with special 

 preface by Poincare and introduction by Joseph Royce (one vol. with index, 

 566 p., New York 1913), reprinted 1921, 1929. 



Ramsperger, Albert Gustav: 



1942: Philosophies of science (315 p., New York; Isis 34, 270). 

 The author is a philosopher. 



Reichenbach, Hans (1891- ) : 



1928: Philosophic der Raum-Zeit-Lehre (386 p., Berlin). 



1932: Atoms and cosmos, the world of modern physics (300 p., London). 



German original, Berlin 1930. 



1938: Experience and prediction, an analysis of the foundations and the structure 

 of knowledge (420 p., Chicago University). — Reprinted 1949. 



1942: From Copernicus to Einstein (123 p., New York). — German original, 

 Berhn 1927. 



1944: Philosophic foundations of quantum-mechanics (192 p., Berkeley, Calif.). 



Rey, Abel (1873-1940): 



1907: La theorie de la physique chez les physiciens contemporains (Paris; 2nd 

 revised ed., 1923, Isis 5, 484-85; Srd ed., 1930). 



1927: Le retour eternel et la philosophic de la physique (320 p., Paris 1927; 

 Isis 9, 477-79). 



The author is a philosopher who was director of the institute for the history of 

 science at the University of Paris; he was succeeded by Bachelard, listed above. 



Ritchie, Arthur David: 



1923: Scientific method. An inquiry into the character and validity of natural 

 laws (London). 



The author is a chemical physiologist. 



Russell, Bertrand ( 1872- ) : 



1948: Human knowledge: its scope and limits (540 p., London). 

 English mathematician and philosopher. 



Sehrodinger, Erwin (1887- ): 



1935: Science and the human temperament (154 p., London). 

 1945: What is life? (100 p., Cambridge; Isis 36, 229). 

 The author is a mathematician and physicist. 



Smuts, )an Christiaan (1870-1950): 



1926: Holism and evolution (300 p., London). 

 South African soldier, statesman, philosopher. 



Weizsacker, Carl Friedrich von: 



1949: The history of nature (198 p.. University of Chicago; Isis 41, 393).— First 

 pubhshed in German: Die Geschichte der Natur ( 170 p., Ziirich 1948). 



