... difficulties to the reader. 66 The Coming of Materials Science Nevertheless, a very few eminent scientists held out to the end. Perhaps the most famous of these was the Austrian Ernst Mach (1 838 -1916), ... fallen on one of its sides, the new condition of stability. If, now, the tip is shaved off the pyramid, leaving a small flat 74 The Coming of Materials Science study of metallic structure. ... accepted the legacy of the Greek philosophers, but it is appropriate to conclude with the words (Andrade 19 23) of Edward Andrade (1887-1971): The triumph of the atomic hypothesis is the epitome...