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S. Chandrasekhar

Truth and Beauty

Aesthetics and Motivations in Science

180 pages, 6 halftones, 8 line drawings, 2 tables     © 1987

Paper $22.00

ISBN: 9780226100876   Published October 1990

Preface

1. The Scientist [1946]

2. The Pursuit of Science: Its Motivations [1985]

3. THE NORA AND EDWARD RYERSON LECTURE
Shakespeare, Newton, and Beethoven, or Patterns of Creativity [1975]

4. Beauty and the Quest for Beauty in Science [1979]

5. MILNE LECTURE
Edward Arthur Milne: His Part in the Development of Modern Astrophysics [1979]

6. ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON CENTENARY LECTURES [1982]
Eddington: The Most Distinguished Astrophysicist of His Time
Eddington: The Expositor and the Exponent of General Relativity

7. KARL SCHWARZSCHILD LECTURE
The Aesthetic Base of the General Theory of Relativity [1986]
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