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Science 28 August 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5381, pp. 1293 - 1294
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5381.1293b
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Atomic Philosophies
A review by Diana Barkan
The Atom in the History of Human Thought
by Bernard Pullman
Translated by Axel Reisinger
Oxford University Press, New York, 1998. 414 pp. $30, £25. ISBN 0-19-511447-7.
A history of concepts of the atom, traced primarily through the works of philosophers and other intellectual critics rather than those of scientists. Beginning with the notion of an indivisible fundamental constituent of matter first formulated by the pre-Socratic Greek thinkers, Pullam follows ideas that have and have not survived from the ancients and the pre-moderns into our own contemporary conceptions.
The author is in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Californina Institute of Technology, 228-77, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. E-mail: dibar{at}cco.caltech.edu
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