A History of Science — Volume 2
by Edward Huntington Williams Henry Smith Williams
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. This book is printed in black & white, Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back 1904. As this book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages. If it is multi vo Resized as per current standards. We expect that you will understand our compulsion with such books. 377 A History of science ...
Chapters (45)
- A HISTORY OF SCIENCE
- A HISTORY OF SCIENCE
- BOOK II. THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN SCIENCE
- I. SCIENCE IN THE DARK AGE
- II. MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE AMONG THE ARABIANS
- III. MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE IN THE WEST
- IV. THE NEW COSMOLOGY—COPERNICUS TO KEPLER AND GALILEO
- V. GALILEO AND THE NEW PHYSICS
- VI. TWO PSEUDO-SCIENCES—ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY
- VII. FROM PARACELSUS TO HARVEY
- PARACELSUS
- VIII. MEDICINE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
- IX. PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTISTS AND NEW INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING
- X. THE SUCCESSORS OF GALILEO IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE
- XI. NEWTON AND THE COMPOSITION OF LIGHT
- XII. NEWTON AND THE LAW OF GRAVITATION
- XIII. INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION IN THE AGE OF NEWTON
- XIV. PROGRESS IN ELECTRICITY FROM GILBERT AND VON GUERICKE TO FRANKLIN
- XV. NATURAL HISTORY TO THE TIME OF LINNAEUS
- APPENDIX
- REFERENCE LIST
- CHAPTER I
- SCIENCE IN THE DARK AGE
- CHAPTER III
- MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE IN THE WEST
- CHAPTER IV
- THE NEW COSMOLOGY—COPERNICUS TO KEPLER AND GALILEO
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- TWO PSEUDO-SCIENCES—ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY
- CHAPTER VII
- FROM PARACELSUS TO HARVEY
- CHAPTER VIII
- MEDICINE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
- CHAPTER IX
- PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTISTS AND NEW INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING
- CHAPTER X
- THE SUCCESSORS OF GALILEO IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE
- CHAPTER XI
- NEWTON AND THE COMPOSITION OF LIGHT
- CHAPTER XII
- NEWTON AND THE LAW OF GRAVITATION
- CHAPTER XIV
- PROGRESS IN ELECTRICITY FROM GILBERT AND VON GUERICKE TO FRANKLIN
- TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THE FIVE VOLUMES
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