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PREFACE

ILLUSTRATIONS

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

CHAPTER I

SCIENCE AND PRACTICAL NEEDS—EGYPT AND BABYLONIA

CHAPTER II

THE INFLUENCE OF ABSTRACT THOUGHT—GREECE: ARISTOTLE

CHAPTER III

SCIENTIFIC THEORY SUBORDINATED TO APPLICATION—ROME: VITRUVIUS

CHAPTER IV

THE CONTINUITY OF SCIENCE—THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH AND THE ARABS

CHAPTER V

THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE SCIENCES—FRANCIS BACON

Bacon's Catalogue of Particular Histories by Titles (1620)

CHAPTER VI

SCIENTIFIC METHOD—GILBERT, GALILEO, HARVEY, DESCARTES

CHAPTER VII

SCIENCE AS MEASUREMENT—TYCHO BRAHE, KEPLER, BOYLE

CHAPTER VIII

COÖPERATION IN SCIENCE—THE ROYAL SOCIETY

CHAPTER IX

SCIENCE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY—BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

CHAPTER X

THE INTERACTION OF THE SCIENCES—WERNER, HUTTON, BLACK, HALL, WILLIAM SMITH

CHAPTER XI

SCIENCE AND RELIGION—KANT, LAMBERT, LAPLACE, SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL

CHAPTER XII

THE REIGN OF LAW—DALTON, JOULE

CHAPTER XIII

THE SCIENTIST—SIR HUMPHRY DAVY

CHAPTER XIV

SCIENTIFIC PREDICTION—THE DISCOVERY OF NEPTUNE

CHAPTER XV

SCIENCE AND TRAVEL—THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE

CHAPTER XVI

SCIENCE AND WAR—PASTEUR, LISTER

CHAPTER XVII

SCIENCE AND INVENTION—LANGLEY'S AEROPLANE

CHAPTER XVIII

SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS—RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES

List of Radioactive Substances

CHAPTER XIX

THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION

CHAPTER XX

SCIENCE AND DEMOCRATIC CULTURE

INDEX