At the nineteenth century’s close, a remarkable panel — Alfred Russel Wallace, William Ramsay, Flinders Petrie, Norman Lockyer, Edward Caird and others — was asked to take stock. The Progress of the Century is their collective report: evolution, chemistry, astronomy, archaeology, philosophy and more, each surveyed by a master of the field at the exact hinge of 1900.
As a time capsule of expert opinion on the eve of relativity and the quantum, it is irresistible. Download the free EPUB and hear the nineteenth century grade its own examination.