A century of science, and other essays

By

Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Fiske, John, 1842-1901

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Boston and, Houghton Mifflin and company, 1900 [c1899]

Notes

Contents: Century of science.--Doctrine of evolution: its scope and purport.--Edward Livingston Youmans.--Part played by infancy in the evolution of man.--Origins of liberal thought in America.--Sir Harry Vane.--Arbitration treaty.--Francis Parkman.--Edward Augustus Freeman.--Cambridge as village and city.--Harvest of Irish folk-lore.--Guessing at half and multiplying by two.--Forty years of Bacon-Shakespeare folly.--Some cranks and their crochets.

Subjects

1564-1616 , 1612?-1662 , 1821-1887 , 1823-1892 , 1823-1893 , 1838-1901 , Arbitration, International , Authorship , Cambridge (Mass.) , Cook, Joseph, , Description and travel , Eccentrics and eccentricities , Evolution , Folklore , Freeman, Edward Augustus, , History , Ireland , Parkman, Francis, , Science , Shakespeare, William, , Sir, , Vane, Henry, , Youmans, Edward Livingston,

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.18557
OCLC: 2023314
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51426213