Chapter I: Front Matter

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SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD

LOWELL LECTURES, 1925

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SCIENCE
AND THE MODERN WORLD

LOWELL LECTURES, 1925

BY
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
F.R.S., Sc.D. (Cambridge), Hon. D.Sc. (Manchester),
Hon. LL.D. (St. Andrews)

FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
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1925
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE ORIGINS OF MODERN SCIENCE 1

II. MATHEMATICS AS AN ELEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF 28
THOUGHT

III. THE CENTURY OF GENIUS 55

IV. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 80

V. THE ROMANTIC REACTION 105

VI. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 134

VII. RELATIVITY 160

VIII. THE QUANTUM THEORY 181

IX. SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY 193

X. ABSTRACTION 219

XI. GOD 242

XII. RELIGION AND SCIENCE 252

XIII. REQUISITES FOR SOCIAL PROGRESS 270