The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance
| Editor | Ronald Duncan, Miranda Weston-Smith |
| Publisher | Pocket Books |
| Imprint | Wallaby Books |
| Published in/by Arrangement with | Pergamon Press Ltd |
| Contributing Writer | Otto Robert Frisch, Hermann Bondi, Raymond Lyttleton, John Archibald Wheeler, C. M. Patton, Ian Roxburgh, William McCrea, Michael Rowan-Robinson, Douglas Gough, Paul Davies (3), Bruno Bertotti, Thomas Gold, Anthony James Leggett, C. J. S. Clarke, Edward William Bastin, Alan Cottrell, Robert W. Cahn, Denys Wilkinson, Abdus Salam, Roger Penrose, Hans-Joachim Bremermann, Clive W. Kilmister, Heini Halberstam, John Kendrew, Roy John Britten, James C. Lacy, Arthur L. Webb, Kenneth M. Pruitt, Eric Tomlin, John Maynard Smith, Donald Johanson, Vincent Wigglesworth, Horace Barlow, Richard L. Gregory, Henry A. Buchtel, Giovanni Berlucchi, Francis Crick, Henry Micklem, Arthur Mourant, Peter J. Grubb, Anthony Charles Neville, K. A. Bettelheim, Manny Lehman, Michael V. Tracey, Patrick D. Wall, J. H. P. Willis, Wilse B. Webb, Ewan Cameron, Linus Pauling, Preston Cloud, Graham Cairns-Smith, C. J. Davis, Martin Holdgate, James Beament, N. L. Falcon, Roger Wolcott Sperry |
| About/Subject | Cosmology, Earth, Moon, Gravity, Theory of relativity, Quantum mechanics, Evolution, Homo, Consciousness, Nature (Subject) |
| Format | Soft cover |
| Language | English |
| Location | United States |
| Copyright | 1977 |
| This Edition Published | 1978-09 |
| Pages / Font | 443 pages |
| ISBN | 0-671-79050-1 |
| Library of Congress Catalog Card Number | 77-30376 |
| Catalog Number | 79050 |
| Printer's Key | 1 2 3 4 0 9 8 |
| Price | $7.95 |
| Chapters | Editorial Preface . . . ix Acknowledgments . . .xi Why . . O. R. Frisch . . . 1 The Lure of Completeness . . Sir Hermann Bondi . . . 5 The Nature of Knowledge . . R. A. Lyttleton . . . 9 Is Physics Legislated by Cosmogony? . . J. A. Wheeler and C. M. Patton . . . 19 The Cosmological Mystery . . I. W. Roxburgh . . . 37 Origin of Earth, Moon and Planets . . W. H. McCrea . . . 47 Galaxies, Quasars and the Universe . . M. Rowan-Robinson . . . 57 The Solar Interior . . D. Gough . . . 67 Curved Space . . P. C. W. Davies . . . 77 Is Space Curved? . . I. W. Roxburgh . . . 85 The Riddles of Gravitation . . B. Bertotti . . . 91 Relativity and Time . . T. Gold . . . 99 The "Arrow of Time" and Quantum Mechanics . . A. J. Leggett . . . 101 The Hinterland Between Large and Small . . C. J. S. Clarke . . . 111 A Clashing of Paradigms in Physics . . T. Bastin . . . 119 Emergent Properties of Complex Systems . . Sir Alan Cottrell . . . 129 Transformations . . R. W. Cahn . . . 137 The Unknown Atomic Nucleus . . Sir Denys Wilkinson . . . 143 Probing the Heart of Matter . . A. Salam . . . 155 Is Nature Complex? . . R. Penrose . . . 159 Complexity and Transcomputability . . H. J. Bremermann . . . 167 Mathematics in the Social Sciences . . C. W. Kilmister . . . 175 Some Unsolved Problems in Higher Arithmetic . . H. Halberstam . . . 191 Introduction . . Sir John Kendrew . . . 205 The Sources of Variation in Evolution . . R. J. Britten . . . 209 The Edge of Evolution . . J. C. Lacey, A. L. Weber and K. M. Pruitt . . . 219 Fallacies of Evolutionary Theory . . E. W. F. Tomlin . . . 227 The Limitations of Evolutionary Theory . . J. Maynard Smith . . . 235 Rethinking the Origins of the Genus Homo . . D. C. Johanson . . . 243 The Control of Form in the Living Body . . Sir Vincent Wigglesworth . . . 251 The Languages of the Brain . . H. B. Barlow . . . 259 Consciousness . . R. L. Gregory . . . 273 Learning and Memory and the Nervous System . . H. A. Buchtel and G. Berlucci . . . 283 Developmental Biology . . F. H. C. Crick . . . 299 Immunology . . H. S. Micklem . . . 305 Why are the Blood Groups? . . A. E. Mourant . . . 311 Leaf Structure and Function . . P. J. Grubb . . . 317 Symmetry and Asymmetry Problems in Animals . . A. C. Neville . . . 331 Bacterial Pathogenicity . . K. A. Bettelheim . . . 339 Human Thought and Action as an Ingredient of System Behavior . . M. M. Lehman . . . 347 Human Nutrition . . M. V. Tracey . . . 355 Why Do We Not Understand Pain? . . P. D. Wall . . . 361 Drug Addiction . . J. H. P. Willis . . . 369 Sleep . . W. B. Webb . . . 373 Ascorbic Acid and the Glycosaminoglycans E. Cameron and L. Pauling . . . 377 The Veils of Gaia . . P. Cloud . . . 387 The Design of Novel Replicating Polymers . . A. G. Cairns-Smith and C. J. Davis . . . 391 Synthetic Life for Industry . . A. G. Cairns-Smith . . . 405 The Ecological Dilemma . . M. Holdgate and J. W. L. Beament . . . 411 Ignorance Below Our Feet . . N. L. Falcon . . . 417 Problems Outstanding in the Evolution of Brain Function . . R. W. Sperry . . . 423 Index . . . 435 |
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