Learn Chess from the GreatsInvaluable instructions for chess players at all levels includes elementary ideas for immediate practical use; how to attack, featuring tactics of Fischer, Keres, Alekhine, and other masters; challenging chess problems; and 60 complete games by Blackburne, Marshall, Spielmann, Tartakower, and other immortals. |
Contents
SCIENCE IN TRANSITION 16301650 | 17 |
THE GALILEAN REVOLUTION IN PHYSICS | 36 |
NATURES LANGUAGE | 78 |
THE METHOD OF SCIENCE | 103 |
FLORENCE LONDON PARIS | 132 |
EXPLORING THE LARGE AND THE SMALL | 155 |
PROBLEMS OF LIVING THINGS | 175 |
ELEMENTS AND PARTICLES | 216 |
EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS | 244 |
NEWTON AND THE WORLD OF LAW | 276 |
THE AGE OF NEWTON | 307 |
EPILOGUE | 329 |
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