Volume 9, Number 11 · December 21, 1967

System Builders

By D.P. Walker
Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century
by Clarence J. Glacken

California, 763 pp., $15.00

The Royal Society: Concept and Creation
by Margery Purver

M.I.T., 246 pp., $7.00

Science in Utopia: A Mighty Design
by Nell Eurich

Harvard, 332 pp., $8.50

The first of these books traces the history of the answers given to three questions, namely:



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