Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Science Being Extracts from the Writings of Men of Science to Illustrate the Development of Scientific ThoughtCUP Archive, 1924 - 275 pages |
Contents
ARISTOTLE | 3 |
COPERNICUS | 10 |
NEWTON | 31 |
EINSTEIN MINKOWSKI EDDINGTON Relativity 5555 | 55 |
LAPLACE | 69 |
LAVOISIER AND THE RISE of Modern CHEMISTRY | 83 |
3 | 86 |
ΙΟ | 93 |
POSITIVE RAYS AND ISOTOPES | 144 |
THE NATURE OF XRAYS AND THE DISCOVERY | 149 |
ww | 156 |
RADIOACTIVITY AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM | 160 |
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION | 168 |
PHYSIOLOGUS | 179 |
AN EARLY MICROSCOPIST | 181 |
LYELL | 206 |
THE COMBINATION OF GASES | 100 |
44 | 104 |
THE PERIODIC LAW | 112 |
ELECTROCHEMISTRY | 118 |
THE IONIC DISSOCIATION THEORY | 127 |
WÖHLER | 213 |
Extracts relating to the Early History of Spectrum | 215 |
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES | 229 |
THE CHROMOSOME THEORY OF HEREDITY | 262 |
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