Famous Men of Science

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Sarah K. Bolton. Famous Men of Science

PREFACE

GALILEO GALILEI

SIR ISAAC NEWTON

CARL LINNÆUS

BARON CUVIER

SIR WILLIAM AND CAROLINE HERSCHEL

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT

SIR HUMPHREY DAVY

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE

SIR CHARLES LYELL

JOSEPH HENRY, LL.D

LOUIS AGASSIZ

CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN

FRANCIS TREVELYAN BUCKLAND

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Garfield said, "No page of human history is so instructive and significant as the record of those early influences which develop the character and direct the lives of eminent men."

These sketches show how young men have overcome difficulties, sometimes poverty, sometimes illness; how they have made failures before finding their true vocation. They show the results of energy, perseverance, and untiring devotion; how a cheerful face and a hopeful spirit like Agassiz's, or a gentle and kindly nature like Darwin's, can win its way against opposition.

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In 1611, his expenses paid by the Grand Duke, he went to Rome to show his "celestial novelties," as they were called, to the pope and the cardinals. He was received with great attention, and all seemed delighted to look upon the wonders of the heavens, provided always that nothing could be proved against the supposed assertion of the Bible that the earth did not move!

Galileo soon published his "Discourse on Floating Bodies," which aroused violent opposition; "Spots observed on the Body of the Sun," and the "Discourse on the Tides."

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