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Author
Sir James Jeans
Published
1930 (Cambridge University Press)
Pages
163
504
LC Class
Q171 .J37
The Mysterious Universe is a popular science book by the British astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, first published in 1930 by the Cambridge University Press. In the United States, it was published by Macmillan.
The book is an expanded version of the Rede Lecture delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1930.[1] It begins with a full-page citation of the famous passage in Plato's Republic, Book VII, laying out the allegory of the cave. The book made frequent reference to the quantum theory of radiation, begun by Max Planck in 1900, to Einstein's general relativity, and to the new theories of quantum mechanics of Heisenberg and Schrödinger, of whose philosophical perplexities the author seemed well aware.
The book was denounced by the Cambridge philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, because 'Jeans has written a book called The Mysterious Universe and I loathe it and call it misleading. Take the title...I might say that the title The Mysterious Universe includes a kind of idol worship, the idol being Science and the Scientist.'[2]
A second edition appeared in 1931. The book was reprinted 15 times between 1930 and 1938 and in September 2007 (ISBN978-0548451168).
Contents[edit]
Foreword
The Dying Sun
The New World of Modern Physics
Matter and Radiation
Relativity and the Ether
Into the Deep Waters
Index
There are two pages of photographic plates:
'The Depths of Space,' taken with the Mount Wilson observatory;
'The Diffraction of Light and of Electrons,' bearing out the wave nature of electrons and protons predicted by quantum theory.
The US edition has woodcut illustrations by the painter Walter Tandy Murch.
References[edit]
^Sir James Jeans 1938 (reprint of 1931 edition of 1930 book): The Mysterious Universe, vii.
^Monk, Ray. Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius. Jonathan Cape Ltd; London. 1990.
External links[edit]
Weinberg, Steven (3 April 2015). 'Steven Weinberg: the 13 best science books for the general reader'. The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
Stetson, Harlan T. (16 January 1931). 'Reviewed Work: The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans'. Science. 73 (1881): 71. Bibcode:1931Sci....73...71L. doi:10.1126/science.73.1881.71. JSTOR1656043.
Mozley, J. K. (May 1931). 'Reviewed Work: The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans'. The Mathematical Gazette. 15 (213): 395–397. doi:10.2307/3605815. JSTOR3605815.
Brown, G. B. (April 1931). 'Reviewed Work: The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans'. Philosophy. 6 (22): 243–245. doi:10.1017/s0031819100045290. JSTOR3746658.
G., H. V. (December 1931). 'Reviewed Works: The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans; The Stars in Their Courses by James Jeans'. Studies: an Irish Quarterly Review. 20 (80): 669–671. JSTOR30094841.
'Reviewed Work: The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans'. Advocate of Peace through Justice. 93 (3): 178. August 1931. JSTOR20681600.
D., A. (September 1931). 'Reviewed Work: The Mysterious Universe by J. Jeans'. Geography. 16 (3): 238. JSTOR40561953.
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