Volume VI Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Lynchburg College Symposium Readings, Senior Symposium, and the LCSR Program
Introduction
I. Science and Mathematics of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries
Nicolaus Copernicus
Commentariolus (ca. 1514)
Galileo Galilei
"The Starry Messenger" (1610)
"Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina" (1615)
Isaac Newton
Principia Mathematica (1729)
II. Science and Mathematics of the Nineteenth Century
Michael Faraday
The Chemical History of a Candle (1861)
J. Clerk Maxwell
Matter and Motion (1877)
Edwin A. Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
III. Science and Mathematics of the Twentieth Century
René Vallery-Radot
The Life of Pasteur (1924)
Marie Curie
Pierre Curie (1923)
G. H. Hardy
A Mathematician's Apology (1940)
G. Pólya
How to Solve It (1945)
Linus Pauling
General Chemistry (1947)
No More War! (1958)
Mary Lucy Cartwright
Mathematics and Thinking Mathematically
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979)
Siv Cedering
Letters from the Floating World (1984)
Richard P. Feynman
QED, The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985)
