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The Progress of Science: An Account of Recent Fundamental Researches in Physics, Chemistry and Biology
Science is supposed to make life better, right? But when you pick up a book from 1934 about the latest breakthroughs in physics, chemistry, and biology, you realize how much we thought we knew — and how much we didn’t. J.G. Crowther’s "The Progress of Science" is like a time capsule of optimism, where quantum leaps and the secrets of heredity promised to fix the world’s mess. Spoiler: reality isn’t that simple.
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