| Evidence: | '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.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 5 Jan 1929 | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Edward Morgan Forster |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1 Jan 1879 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | A. S. Eddington |
| Title: | The Nature of the Physical World |
| Genre: | Science |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1928 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 20841 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | E. M. Forster | |
| Editor: | Philip Gardner | |
| Title: | Commonplace Book | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1985 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 45 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | E. M. Forster, Philip Gardner (ed.), Commonplace Book (London, 1985), p. 45, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20841, accessed: 03 June 2023 | |
| Copy of text Forster's present to himself for his fiftieth birthday; see p.273 in source. |
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