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A. S. Eddington

 

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A. S. Eddington : Stars and Atoms

Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include remarks on spatial relations between man, atoms, and stars, and on the effects of temperature on matter, from A. S. Eddington, Stars and Atoms (1927).

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

  

A. S. Eddington : The Nature of the Physical World

'Eddington (5.1.29). After reading his Nature of the Physical World as carefully as I can, the new ideas become more possible to me and therefore less wonderful. They degenerate into mathematical symbols which we are content to use without understanding.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

 

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