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FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES AND THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE

by Chandra Wickramasinghe

Published by University College Cardiff. 1st. 1984

Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. This volume brings into focus fundamental enquiries in many areas of contemporary thought, mainly in Science, but also in sociology and philosophy. The majority of articles in this volume were based on lectures delivered at the Inaugural Seminar of the Institute of Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka, December 1982. Edited by Chandra Wickramasinghe. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and graphs. vii and 390 pages.

Two small circular blind stamps to prelims else contents fine. Black dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

ISBN: 090644957X
Stock no. 817411

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Contents

  • FRED HOYLE: On the Casues of Plate Tectonics
  • HANS D. PFLUG: Ultrafine Structure of the Organic Matter in Meteorites
  • E.K. BIGG: Particles in the Upper Atmosphere
  • A.W. WOLFENDALE: The Origin of Cosmic Rays
  • ZDENEK KOPAL: Multiple Stars and Stellar Evolution
  • D.A. MENDIS: Gravito-electrodynamics and the Structure and Origin of Ring Systems Around Planets
  • S. HAYAKAWA: A Cosmological Model with Population III Objects
  • D.T. WICKRAMASINGHE: Magnetic White Dwarfs
  • JAYANT V. NARLIKAR: Inputs into Fundamental Studies from Astronomy
  • R.F. CHURCHHOUSE: The Past, Present and Future of Computers and Computer Science
  • C.J. ELIEZER: The Mathematical Sciences - In Perspective
  • R.S. RAMAKRISHNA: Chemical Sciences and Resources Development
  • J.N.R. JEFFERS: The Future for Models and Microprocessors in Ecological Research and Resource Management
  • CYRIL PONNAMPERUMA: Basic Chemistry in the Conquest of Hunger
  • L.B. DE SILVA: Medicinal Plant Research: Retrospect and Prospect
  • GEOFFREY FRYER: The Contemplation of Organisms - Esoteric Pursuit or Fundamental Activity?
  • E.K. BIGG: The scientific attitude to unacceptable hypotheses
  • ZDENEK KOPAL: Will Our Civilization Survive?
  • H. CRUSZ: Problems of Evolution
  • HUMPHREY PALMER: The Place of Speculative Thought in Religion, Philosophy & Science
  • FRITOF CAPRA: The New Vision of Reality - Parallels Between Modern Physics and Easter Mysticism
  • J.R. JAYEWARDENE: Science, Politics and Yogic Traditions
  • ARTHUR C. CLARKE: War and Peace in the Space Age
  • M.J. RYCROFT: Atmospheric Research in Antartica
  • GUSTAF ARRHENIUS: Minerals with Channel Structure as Substrates for Nucleotide and Peptide Synthesis
  • F. HOYLE and N.C. WICKRAMASINGHE: Interstellar Grains: Dogmas, Trends and Refutations
  • S. AL-MUFTI, F. HOYLE, and N.C. WICKRAMASINGHE: The Survival of E.coli Under Extremely High Pressures
  • M.H.A. HASSAN: Sand Transport and Desertification in Arid Lands
  • B.V. SREEKANTAN: High Energy Physics and Astrophysics in India
  • TOM GEHRELS: Possibilities for Astrophysics in Sri Lanka
  • F. HOYLE and N.C. WICKRAMASINGHE: The Anatomy of a Conference Epidemic

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