Two cultures? : the significance of C. P. Snow : manuscript, 1962.

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Two cultures? : the significance of C. P. Snow : manuscript, 1962.

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Autograph text of his Richmond Lecture given at Downing College, Cambridge Hall on Michaelmas and written on the verso of student essays. This was a response to Snow's Rede Lecture of 1959 entitled "The two cultures and the scientific revolution."

36 leaves, bound ; 29 cm.

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