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Roland Duncan, Miranda Weston-Smith, editors. The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance. Pergamon. 1977
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Contents
- • Otto R. Frisch.
- Why
- • Hermann Bondi.
- The lure of completeness
- • Ray A. Lyttleton.
- The nature of knowledge
- • John Archibald Wheeler, C. M. Patton.
- Is physics legislated by cosmogony?
- • William H. McCrea.
- Origin of Earth, moon and planets
- • Michael Rowan-Robinson.
- Galaxies, quasars and the universe
- • Douglas Gough.
- The solar interior
- • Paul C. W. Davies.
- Curved space
- • I. W. Roxburgh.
- Is space curved?
- • Bruno Bertotti.
- The riddles of gravitation
- • Thomas Gold.
- Relativity and time
- • A. J. Leggett.
- The "arrow of time" and quantum mechanics
- • C. J. S. Clarke.
- The hinterland between large and small
- • Ted Bastin.
- A clash of paradigms in physics
- • Alan Cottrell.
- Emergent properties of complex systems
- • R. W. Cahn.
- Transformations
- • Denys Haigh Wilkinson.
- The unknown atomic nucleus
- • Abdus Salam.
- Probing the heart of matter
- • Roger Penrose.
- Is nature complex?
- • Hans J. Bremermann.
- Complexity and transcomputability
- • C. W. Kilmister.
- Mathematics in the social sciences
- • Heini Halberstam.
- Some unsolved problems in higher arithmetic
- • John Kendrew.
- Introduction
- • Roy J. Britten.
- The sources of variation in evolution
- • James C. Lacey Jr, Arthur L. Weber, Kenneth M. Pruitt.
- The edge of evolution---a molecular historical perspective
- • E. W. F. Tomlin.
- Fallacies of evolutionary theory
- • John Maynard Smith.
- The limitations of evolution theory
- • Donald C. Johanson.
- Rethinking the origins of the genus Homo
- • Vincent B. Wigglesworth.
- The control of form in the living body
- • Horace B. Barlow.
- The languages of the brain
- • Richard L. Gregory.
- Consciousness
- • Henry A. Buchtel, Giovanni Berlucchi.
- Learning and memory and the nervous system
- • Francis H. C. Crick.
- Developmental biology
- • H. S. Micklem.
- Immunology
- • Arthur E. Mourant.
- Why are there three blood groups?
- • Peter J. Grubb.
- Leaf structure and function
- • Anthony Charles Neville.
- Symmetry and asymmetry problems in animals
- • K. A. Bettelheim.
- Bacterial pathogenicity
- • M. M. Lehman.
- Human thought and action as an ingredient of system behaviour
- • Michael V. Tracey.
- Human nutrition
- • Patrick D. Wall.
- Why do we not understand pain?
- • J. H. P. Willis.
- Drug addiction
- • Wilse B. Webb.
- Sleep
- • Ewan Cameron, Linus Pauling.
- Ascorbic acid and the glycosaminoglycans: an orthomolecular approach to cancer and other diseases
- • Preston Cloud.
- The veils of Gaia
- • A. G. Cairns-Smith, C. J. Davis.
- The design of novel replicating polymers
- • A. G. Cairns-Smith.
- Synthetic life for industry
- • Martin Holdgate, J. W. L. Beament.
- The ecological dilemma
- • N. L. Falcon.
- Ignorance below our feet
- • Roger W. Sperry.
- Problems outstanding in the evolution of brain function