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Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science
An Introduction to the History of Science
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. CHAPTER I
SCIENCE AND PRACTICAL NEEDS—EGYPT AND BABYLONIA
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CHAPTER II
THE INFLUENCE OF ABSTRACT THOUGHT—GREECE: ARISTOTLE
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CHAPTER III
SCIENTIFIC THEORY SUBORDINATED TO APPLICATION—ROME: VITRUVIUS
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CHAPTER IV
THE CONTINUITY OF SCIENCE—THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH AND THE ARABS
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CHAPTER V
THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE SCIENCES—FRANCIS BACON
Bacon's Catalogue of Particular Histories by Titles (1620)
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CHAPTER VI
SCIENTIFIC METHOD—GILBERT, GALILEO, HARVEY, DESCARTES
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CHAPTER VII
SCIENCE AS MEASUREMENT—TYCHO BRAHE, KEPLER, BOYLE
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CHAPTER VIII
COÖPERATION IN SCIENCE—THE ROYAL SOCIETY
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CHAPTER IX
SCIENCE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY—BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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CHAPTER X
THE INTERACTION OF THE SCIENCES—WERNER, HUTTON, BLACK, HALL, WILLIAM SMITH
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CHAPTER XI
SCIENCE AND RELIGION—KANT, LAMBERT, LAPLACE, SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL
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CHAPTER XII
THE REIGN OF LAW—DALTON, JOULE
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CHAPTER XIII
THE SCIENTIST—SIR HUMPHRY DAVY
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CHAPTER XIV
SCIENTIFIC PREDICTION—THE DISCOVERY OF NEPTUNE
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CHAPTER XV
SCIENCE AND TRAVEL—THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE
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CHAPTER XVI
SCIENCE AND WAR—PASTEUR, LISTER
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CHAPTER XVII
SCIENCE AND INVENTION—LANGLEY'S AEROPLANE
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CHAPTER XVIII
SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS—RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES
List of Radioactive Substances
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CHAPTER XIX
THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION
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CHAPTER XX
SCIENCE AND DEMOCRATIC CULTURE
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INDEX
