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From Magic to Science: Essays on the Scientific Twilight
by Charles Singer. 258 pgs.

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I: Science Under the Roman Empire

II: The Dark Ages and the Dawn of Science

III: The Lorica of Gildas the Briton. a Magical Text of the Sixth Century.

Introduction

IV: Early English Magic and Medicine

V: Early Herbals

VI: The Visions of Hildegard of Bingen

VII: The School of Salerno and Its Egends

Index of Names
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A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century
by Charles Singer. 402 pgs.

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Introduction: Nature of the Scientific Process

I. Rise of Mental Coherence: The Foundations (about 600-400 B.C.): Ionia, Magna Graecia, Athens

Ii. the Great Adventure: Unitary Systems of Thought: Athens, 400-300 B.C.

Iii. the Failure of Nerve: Divorce of Science and Philosophy (300 B.C.-A.D. 200): Alexandria

Iv. the Failure of Inspiration: Science the Handmaid of Practice (50 B.C.-A.D. 400): Imperial Rome

V. the Failure of Knowledge: The Middle Ages (about A.D. 400-1400): Theology, Queen Of the Sciences

Vi. the Revival of Learning: The Rise of Humanism (1250-1600). the Attempted Return to Antiquity

Vii. the Insurgent Century (1600-1700): Downfall of Aristotle. New Attempts at Synthesis

Viii. the Mechanical World: Enthronement of Determinism

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Index
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A History of Biology to about the Year 1900: A General Introduction to the Study of Living Things
by Charles Singer. 580 pgs.

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Part I. the Older Biology

II: Decline and Fall of Ancient Science

III: Rebirth of Inquiry

Part Ii. the Historical Foundations Of Modern Biology

V: Rise of Classificatory Systems

VI: Rise of Comparative Method

VII: Distribution in Space and Time

VIII: Evolution

Part Iii. Emergence of Main Themes of Modern Biology

X: Essentials of Vital Activity

XI: Relativity of Functions

XII: Biogenesis and Its Implications

XIII: Development of the Individual

XIV: Sex

XV: Mechanism of Heredity

Epilogue

Index
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Modern Technology and Civilization: An Introduction to Human Problems in the Machine Age
by Charles R. Walker. 472 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Bibliographical Note

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General Introduction

Part One: Perspectives: Time, Space, and History

Introduction

Bibliography

2. Historical Origins of the Machine Age

4. Technics and the Growth of Capitalism

5. the Last Crowded Quarter Century

Part Two: Problems and Promise of the Machine Age

A. the Machine Age: a Prologue

C. Revolution in the Machine-Man Relationship

2. Pacing and Repetitiveness: Selections Of the Technology Project, Yale University

D. Men, Machines, and Organizations: a Reappraisal

Bibliography

8. on the Job Observation: a New Tool for Research

9. Work Groups on the Assembly Line

11. General Comments on Specialization

E. Money and Motivation in the Machine Age

Bibliography

3: The Comptroller Takes a Fresh Look

F. Technology and Change

7: Fears About Automation

S. Change and the Future

Part Three: Technology in Non-Western Countries

Introduction

I. Social Structure in a Japanese Factory

2. Machine Age Maya

3. Some Labor Problems of Industrialization in Egypt

5. Technology and Productivity in the Soviet Union

Part Four: How to Think About It: Technology And Human Values

Introduction

I. the Machine, the Worker, and the Engineer

2. Social Structure and Psychological Stress

3: Socio-Technical Systems

4: An Historical Theory in the Evolution Of Industrial Skills

5. Work and Leisure Under Industrialism

6: Can Technology Be Controlled?

7. the Future of Man

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Science, Religion and Reality
by Arthur James, Bronislaw Malinowski, Charles Singer, Antonio Aliotta, Arthur S. Eddington, John W. Oman, William Brown, Clement C. J. Webb, William Ralph Inge. 395 pgs.

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Magic Science and Religion

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Historical Relations Of Religion and Science

Science and Religion in The Nineteenth Century

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The Domain of Physical Science

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Mechanistic Biology and The Religious Consciousness

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The Sphere of Religion

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Religion and Psychology

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Science Christianity And Modern Civilisation

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