Note 479 — Chapter XI · FAUSTIAN AND APOLLINIAN NATURE-KNOWLEDGE
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
M. Born, Aufbau der Materie (1920), p. 27.
(So many books and papers—strict, semi-popular and frankly popular—have been published in the last few years that references may seem superfluous, the more so as the formulation of this central theory of present-day physics. The article Matter by Rutherford in the Ency. Brit., XIIth edition (1922), and Bertrand Russell, The A.B.C. of Atoms, are perhaps the clearest elementary accounts that are possible, having regard to the scientist’s necessary reservations of judgment.—Tr.