Stories by James R. Newman

The fighting ship and the airplane as artifacts of modern civilization

A kindly view of Francis Bacon, a curiously controversial figure in the history of science

A special review of those about science for groping parents at Christmastime

Julian Huxley's summary of the vast debate between the schools of Lysenko and Mendel

The history of maps: a thread running through the history of everything else

Was Goethe a scientist? Hero worship has obscured the fact that he was not

A bacteriologist's account of biological warfare, the underpublicized complement of the atomic bomb

Arthur Koestler's "Insight and Outlook" : the novelist formulates a philosophy complete with circuit diagrams

Two historical items: the life of Benjamin Rush and David Bradley's account of the Bikini tests

Two reviews: the rationalism of James B. Conant; Marjorie Nicolson's collection of old-time aeronauts

On the nature of mathematics and of mathematicians: two new semi-popularizations of the subject for intelligent laymen

An essay written early in this century by the great mathematician Henri Poincaré is still a remarkable insight into the creative processes of the intellect

A fine collection of essays about Isaac Newton, both the man and his accomplishments, on the occasion of his tercentenary

The "profound and invincible originality" of the obscure Hindu mathematician who died in 1920 made possible one of the most prodigious feats in the history of human thought