On Understanding Physics

Bound in publisher's burgundy cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Moderate foxing. Pages unmarked. xii, 146 p., 22 cm. Originally published in 1938, this informative and insightful book is based on a series of lectures given by W. H. Watson at McGill University, Montreal, which were inspired and influenced by the lectures given by Dr. Ludwig Wittgenstein at the University of Cambridge between the years 1929-34. Watson's lectures are 'offered in the hope that the interest of physicists in particular and scientists in general may be drawn to developments in modern philosophy which promise to be of great importance to learning'. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996). …