Dampier-Whetham, William Cecil Dampier (Hrsg.): Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Science

This 1928 second edition of a 1924 original presents a series of extracts illustrating the development of scientific thought. The text is divided into three sections: 'Cosmogony', 'The Atomic Theory', and 'The Theory of Evolution'. Within each section the extracts run chronologically, revealing the development of the subject in the thought of succeeding ages.