Cambridge Contributions

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511561276

Written primarily for a non-specialist audience, these essays describe contributions made by some of the University of Cambridge's most colourful and able characters in a number of academic disciplines. The essays reveal particularly fertile periods of development and chart voyages of discovery which have occurred all over Cambridge, under group or individual leadership. Approaches vary, from the presentation of historically significant discoveries to the explanation of current research 'contributions' in the making. The interweaving of academic lives of Cambridge figures has done much to enrich understanding within and between disciplines, and to influence their development in particular ways. The enthusiasm with which these figures and disciplines are presented will ensure that readers continue their own investigations into the contributions and contributors included here.

‘ … the fascinating contributions to this book … the standard … covers an impressive range of subjects and disciplines’.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Notes on contributors and contributions
pp vii-xii

Preface
pp xiii-xxii

1 - Some Cambridge contributions to astronomy and cosmology
pp 1-20

2 - Cambridge's contribution to medical science
pp 21-41

3 - Cambridge and the study of English
pp 42-64

4 - The Cambridge contribution to economics
pp 65-87

5 - ‘Nasty forward minxes’: Cambridge and the higher education of women
pp 88-102

6 - Cambridge Classics for the third millennium
pp 103-121

7 - Cambridge contributions: the philosophy of science
pp 122-142

8 - European citizenship and education
pp 143-168

9 - The University Botanic Garden
pp 169-185

10 - Geophysics in Cambridge: extinct and active volcanoes
pp 186-207

11 - Cambridge spies: the ‘Magnificent Five’, 1933–1945
pp 208-228

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