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Physics and Philosophy . The revolution in modern science. Werner Heisenberg. Introduction by F. S. C. Northrop. Vol. 19 of World Perspectives , Ruth Nanda Anshen, Ed. Harper, New York, 1958. xv + 206 pp. $4.

Richard S. Rudner

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