Introduction to the History of Science
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212
1917
English
- 00 Preface
- 01 Science and Practical Needs - Egypt and Babylonia
- 02 The Influence of Abstract Thought - Greece: Aristotle
- 03 Scientific Theory Subordinated to Application - Rome: Vitruvius
- 04 The Continuity of Science - The Medieval Church and the Arabs
- 05 The Classification of the Sciences - Francis Bacon
- 06 Scientific Method - Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Descartes
- 07 Science as Measurement - Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Boyle
- 08 Cooperation in Science - The Royal Society
- 09 Science and the Struggle for Liberty - Benjamin Franklin
- 10 The Interaction of the Sciences - Werner, Hutton, Black, Hall, William Smith
- 11 Science and Religion - Kant, Lambert, Laplace, Sir William Herschel
- 12 The Reign of Law - Dalton, Joule
- 13 The Scientist - Sir Humphry Davy
- 14 Scientific Prediction - The Discovery of Neptune
- 15 Science and Travel - The Voyage of the Beagle
- 16 Science and War - Pasteur, Lister
- 17 Science and Invention - Langley's Aeroplane
- 18 Scientific Hypothesis - Radioactive Substances
- 19 The Scientific Imagination
- 20 Science and Democratic Culture
A highly accessible introductory history of the development of scientific thought, method, and application from the first practical concepts of time and space (Babylonia, Egypt) to the development of the first successful heavier-than-air flying machine (Langley) and the discovery of radioactivity (Curie). - Summary by Steven Seitel
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