Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PIONEERS OF SCIENCE
- PART I FROM DUSK TO DAYLIGHT
- LECTURE I COPERNICUS AND THE MOTION OF THE EARTH
- LECTURE II TYCHO BRAHÉ AND THE EARLIEST OBSERVATORY
- LECTURE III KEPLER AND THE LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION
- LECTURE IV GALILEO AND THE INVENTION OF THE TELESCOPE
- LECTURE V GALILEO AND THE INQUISITION
- LECTURE VI DESCARTES AND HIS THEORY OF VORTICES
- LECTURE VII SIR ISAAC NEWTON
- LECTURE VIII NEWTON AND THE LAW OF GRAVITATION
- LECTURE IX NEWTON'S “PRINCIPIA”
- PART II A COUPLE OF CENTURIES' PROGRESS
- INDEX
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PIONEERS OF SCIENCE
- PART I FROM DUSK TO DAYLIGHT
- LECTURE I COPERNICUS AND THE MOTION OF THE EARTH
- LECTURE II TYCHO BRAHÉ AND THE EARLIEST OBSERVATORY
- LECTURE III KEPLER AND THE LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION
- LECTURE IV GALILEO AND THE INVENTION OF THE TELESCOPE
- LECTURE V GALILEO AND THE INQUISITION
- LECTURE VI DESCARTES AND HIS THEORY OF VORTICES
- LECTURE VII SIR ISAAC NEWTON
- LECTURE VIII NEWTON AND THE LAW OF GRAVITATION
- LECTURE IX NEWTON'S “PRINCIPIA”
- PART II A COUPLE OF CENTURIES' PROGRESS
- INDEX
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- Pioneers of Science , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012First published in: 1893