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Remembered for a mind 'most difficult to describe in its powers, its strangeness, its uniqueness', William Clifford (184579) integrated mathematics, ethics and evolution in this two-volume work of 1879, a posthumous collection of public addresses and writings edited by Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock.

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Introduction: 1. Biographical; 2. Selections from letters, etc.; 3. Bibliographical; Lectures and Essays: 1. On some of the conditions of mental development; 2. On theories of the physical forces; 3. On the aims and instruments of scientific thought; 4. Atoms; 5. The first and last catastrophe; 6. The unseen universe; 7. The philosophy of the pure sciences.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 12/8/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781108040945, 978-1108040945
      ISBN10: 1108040942
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Remembered for a mind 'most difficult to describe in its powers, its strangeness, its uniqueness', William Clifford (184579) integrated mathematics, ethics and evolution in this two-volume work of 1879, a posthumous collection of public addresses and writings edited by Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: 1. Biographical; 2. Selections from letters, etc.; 3. Bibliographical; Lectures and Essays: 1. On some of the conditions of mental development; 2. On theories of the physical forces; 3. On the aims and instruments of scientific thought; 4. Atoms; 5. The first and last catastrophe; 6. The unseen universe; 7. The philosophy of the pure sciences.

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