| Editor |
Knickerbocker, William S. (William Skinkle), 1892-1972 |
| LoC No. |
28016211
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| Title |
Classics of modern science : (Copernicus to Pasteur)
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| Original Publication |
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.
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| Contents |
The method of inductive science on the interpretation of nature, or the reign of man / Francis Bacon -- The new idea of the universe / Nicolaus Copernicus -- On the principles of astronomy / Johann Kepler -- The Copernican versus the Ptolemaic astronomies / Galileo Galilei -- The circulation of blood in animals / William Harvey -- The discovery of the law of the compressibility of gases / Robert Boyle -- The wave theory of light / Christian Huygens -- Observations on animalculæ / Anthony von Leeuwenhoeck -- The theory of gravitation / Sir Isaac Newton -- The identity of lightning and electricity / Benjamin Franklin -- The sex of plants / Linnaeus -- The discovery of carbonic acid gas / Joseph Black -- The discovery of oxygen / Joseph Priestley -- The combination of hydrogen and oxygen into water / Henry Cavendish -- The discovery of Uranus; On the name of the new planet; On nebulous stars / Sir William Herschel -- The constituents of air / Karl Wilhelm Scheele -- The nature of combustion / Antoine Laurent Lavoisier -- New galvanic instrument / Alessandro Volta -- The nebular hypothesis / Pierre Simon Laplace -- The theory of vaccination / Edward Jenner -- The nature of heat / Count Rumford -- The atomic theory / John Dalton -- The doctrine of tissues / Marie François Xavier Bichat -- The molecules in gases proportional to the volumes / Amadeo Avogrado -- On some new phenomena of chemical changes produced by electricity / Sir Humphrey Davy -- On fluid chlorine; Electricity from magnetism / Michael Faraday -- On the production of currents and sparks of electricity from magnetism / Joseph Henry -- Uniformity in the series of past changes in the animate and inanimate world / Sir Charles Lyell -- Natural selection / Charles Darwin -- Cell theory / Theodor Schwann -- The conservation of energy / Hermann von Helmholtz -- Inoculation for hydrophobia / Louis Pasteur -- The Maxwell and Herz theory of electricity and light / James Clerk Maxwell -- The continuity of the germ-plasm as the foundation of a theory of heredity / August Weismann -- The chemistry of the stars / Sir Norman Lockyer -- Theory of bacteria / Robert Koch.
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| Credits |
Tim Miller, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
Q: Science
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| Subject |
Science
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| Subject |
Science -- History
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| Category |
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| EBook-No. |
77076 |
| Release Date |
Oct 18, 2025 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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