Reprint of the 1923 ed.

"Based on lectures given at the Sixth Unity History School held near Birmingham in August 1922."

Includes bibliographies.

The beginnings of science, by J. L. Myres.--Ancient medicine, by C. Singer.--Aspects of biological and geological knowledge in Antiquity, by A. Platt.--Greek mathematics and astronomy, by J. L. E. Dreyer.--The dark ages and the dawn, by C. Singer.--The first physical synthesis, by A. N. Whitehead.--Science in the industrial revolution, by C. H. Desch.--The influence of Darwinism on thought and life, by J. A. Thomson.--Science and education, by A. E. Heath.--Science and health, by F. G. Crookshank.--Science and religion, by J. S. Huxley.--Science and human affairs, by F. S. Marvin.