Part I
THE ALARMING ASTRONOMERS
Chapter I The Common Reader and The Popularizing Scientist
Chapter II The Escape of Sir James Jeans
Part II
The Physicist and The World
Chapter III ‘Furniture of the Earth’
Chapter IV ‘The Symbolic World of Physics’
Chapter V The Descent to the Inscrutable
Chapter VI Consequences of Scrutinizing the Inscrutable
Part III
Causality and Human Freedom
Chapter VII The Nineteenth-Century Nightmare
Chapter VIII The Rejection of Physical Determinism
Chapter IX Reactions and Consequences
Chapter X Human Freedom and Responsibility
Part IV
The Changed Outlook
Chapter XI Entropy and Becoming
Chapter XII Interpretations
Index
Biography
Lizzie Susan Stebbing
