"Essays ... presented as part of the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the History of Science Dinner Club."--Page v.
Includes bibliographical references.
Ontogenetic and other developmental parallels to the history of science / Egon Brunswik -- J.B. Stallo and the critique of classical physics / Stillman Drake -- Charles Fuller Baker, entomologist, botanist, teacher, 1872-1927 / E.O. Essig -- On the history of science and of the second law of thermodynamics / Frederick O. Koenig -- Planck's philosophy of science / Victor F. Lenzen -- The development of ethnography as a science / Robert H. Lowie -- Main topics in Marco Polo's description of the world / Leonardo Olschki -- Hypotheses non fingo / E.W. Strong -- The first stellar parallax de termination / Otto Struve