Early Science in Oxford

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THERE are still to be met scientists who display impatience at the haec olim's of their own antiquarians, and regard the science of the seventeenth century and that of the twentieth as two provinces totally distinct. But on many hands a more understanding survey of those distant realms is growing; and those who find pleasure in the methods of science as well as in its results are nowadays in the position of that Dr. Smith who (p. 22) Early Science in Oxford. By R. T. Gunther. Vol. 4: The Philosophical Society. Pp. viii + 259 + 4 plates. (Oxford: The Author, Magdalen College, 1925.) n.p.