The Mysterious Universe by Sir James Jeans, 1st ed.

The Mysterious Universe, Sir James Jeans. The Macmillan Company/Cambridge University Press, New York. First edition, 1930, 4th printing, December 1930. Art deco artwork by Walter T. Murch on endpapers and throughout the book. Very good condition. No dustjacket. Very good binding. The black cloth cover has red lettering and design, two small blemishes and dinged upper corner on front cover. The spine ends have folds. Deckled fore edges. Unmarked pages, one with tanned areas.

In the chapter “The Law of Miracles” in Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda quotes from Sir James Jeans’s book: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine” (p. 158 in this edition).

Sir James was an English physicist, mathematician, and astronomer. During an interview, he stated he was partial to “the idealistic theory that consciousness is fundamental, and that the material universe is derivative from consciousness” and “each individual consciousness ought to be compared to a brain-cell in a universal mind.”