In his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, E.O. Wilson laid out a grand vision for how the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities might be coherently interrelated. Given how ...

DR. LARDNER'S treatise on Natural Philosophy is quite familiar to those who studied Science ten or fifteen years ago. Before Ganot and Privat-Deschanel were translated, Lardner was the book which ...

NATURAL Philosophy, which is the good old English name for what is now called Physical Science, has been long taught in two very different ways. One method is to begin by giving the student a thorough ...