Cambridge minds / edited by Richard Mason
1994, First Edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #436380
ISBN: 0521456258
Physical description; xiii, 237 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographies. Contents; The effects of a broken home: Bertrand Russell and Cambridge / Ray Monk -- I.A. Richards, F.R. Leavis and Cambridge English / Stephen Heath -- Emily Davies, the Sidgwicks and the education of women in Cambridge / Gillian Sutherland -- Radioastronomy in Cambridge / Antony Hewish -- Three Cambridge prehistorians / Colin Renfrew -- John Maynard Keynes / Geoffrey Harcourt -- Mathematics in Cambridge and beyond/ Jeremy Gray -- James Stuart: engineering, philanthropy and radical politics / Paul McHugh -- The Darwins in Cambridge / Richard Keynes -- How the Burgess Shale came to Cambridge; and what happened / Simon Conway Morris -- Ludwig Wittgenstein / P.M.S. Hacker -- 'Brains in their fingertips': physics at the Cavendish Laboratory 1880-1940 / Jeffrey Hughes -- J.N. Figgis and the history of political thought in Cambridge / Mark Goldie -- Molecular biology in Cambridge / M.F. Perutz -- James Frazer and Cambridge anthropology / Ernest Gellner -- Michael Oakeshott / Robert Grant. Subjects; Frazer, James George (1854-1941). University of Cambridge History. University of Cambridge.
Price: €10.95