Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Science: Being Extracts from the Writings of Men of Science to Illustrate the Development of Scientific ThoughtWilliam Cecil Dampier Dampier, William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham, Margaret Dampier-Whetham Cambridge University Press, 2013 M03 21 - 302 pages First published in 1928, as the second edition of a 1924 original, this book presents a series of extracts illustrating the development of scientific thought. The text is divided into three sections: 'Cosmogony', 'The Atomic Theory', and 'The Theory of Evolution'. Within each section the extracts run chronologically, revealing the development of the subject in the thought of succeeding ages. Illustrative figures are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of science. |
Contents
COSMOGONY | 1 |
ARISTARCHUS AND ARCHIMEDES | 7 |
COPERNICUS ΙΟ | 13 |
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LAPLACE | 43 |
FOUCAULT STOKES BUNSEN AND KIRCHHOFF | 50 |
EINSTEIN MINKOWSKI EDDINGTON Relativity 55555 | 55 |
THE ATOMIC THEORY | 69 |
POSITIVE RAYS AND ISOTOPES | 144 |
THE NATURE OF XRAYS AND THE DISCOVERY | 149 |
RADIOACTIVITY and the STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM | 160 |
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION | 168 |
PHYSIOLOGUS | 179 |
AN EARLY MICROSCOPIST | 181 |
LAMARCK | 195 |
LYELL | 206 |
LAVOISIER AND THE RISE of Modern Chemistry | 83 |
CHEMISTRY AND THE ATOMIC THEORY | 93 |
THE COMBINATION OF GASES | 100 |
THE PERIODIC LAW I 12 | 112 |
ELECTROCHEMISTRY | 118 |
THE IONIC DISSOCIATION THEORY | 127 |
WÖHLER | 213 |
An Essay on the Principle of Population | 230 |
MENDEL | 247 |
THE CHROMOSOME THEORY OF HEREDITY | 262 |
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