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Explore the latest advancements and theories in science with The New Background of Science, a fascinating read that illuminates the complex world of modern scientific research. From quantum mechanics to the origins of the universe, Sir James Jeans provides a comprehensive overview of the cutting-edge ideas that are shaping our understanding of the natural world. Perfect for science enthusiasts and curious minds alike, The New Background of Science is an engaging and enlightening book that is not to be missed. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Science and Music The lantern of science, throwing its light down the long corridors of time, enables us to trace out the gradual evo lution of terrestrial life. Far away in the dim distances of the remote past we see it emerging from lowly beginnings - possibly single-cell organisms on the sea shore - and gradually increasing in complexity until it culminates in the higher mammals of to-day, and in man, the most complicated form of life which has so far emerged from the workshop of nature. And as living beings become more complex, they acquire an ever more intricate battery of sense-organs which help them to find their way about the world, to escape danger, to capture their food and avoid being themselves captured as food. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Problems of Cosmogony and Stellar Dynamics is a theoretical prelude to Jeans''s later and more mature work on the subject, Astronomy and Cosmogony. The impetus for publishing his theories on the behaviour of rotating masses, and on general dynamical theory, was the 1917 Adams Prize on the ''rotating and gravitating fluid mass''. Jeans won the prize with the core text of this volume. Enlarging on that work, and utilising the burgeoning results of astronomy, as well as the author''s bolder theoretical conjectures, this book became a solid foundation for substantial progress in cosmology.

This book can be described as a student''s edition of the author''s Dynamical Theory of Gases. It is written, however, with the needs of the student of physics and physical chemistry in mind, and those parts of which the interest was mainly mathematical have been discarded. This does not mean that the book contains no serious mathematical discussion; the discussion in particular of the distribution law is quite detailed; but in the main the mathematics is concerned with the discussion of particular phenomena rather than with the discussion of fundamentals.

A noted scientist illuminates the intertwined paths of philosophy and science from Plato to the present, and examines the transition from Newtonian classical mechanics to modern relativistic physics.

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