The major achievements of science: Selections from the literature, Volume 2CUP Archive, 1960 - 195 pagina's |
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... Discovery of oxygen . Lavoisier's solution of the problem of combustion . Cavendish's experiments on the synthesis of water . Lavoisier's explanation . Lavoisier's new chemical nomenclature . His death . 79 91 Chapter 9 THE HEROIC AGE ...
... Discovery of oxygen . Lavoisier's solution of the problem of combustion . Cavendish's experiments on the synthesis of water . Lavoisier's explanation . Lavoisier's new chemical nomenclature . His death . 79 91 Chapter 9 THE HEROIC AGE ...
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... discovery of the electron . Röntgen . Curies . Rutherford and radioactivity . Nuclear atom . Moseley . Artificial disintegration of atoms . Synthesis of new elements . Chapter 21 THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY Newton's concepts of absolute ...
... discovery of the electron . Röntgen . Curies . Rutherford and radioactivity . Nuclear atom . Moseley . Artificial disintegration of atoms . Synthesis of new elements . Chapter 21 THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY Newton's concepts of absolute ...
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Inhoudsopgave
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN ANCIENT | 1 |
THE COPERNICAN THEORY | 16 |
THE MECHANICAL UNIVERSE | 32 |
THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD | 45 |
THE PRESSURE OF THE AIR | 57 |
THE EARLY MICROSCOPISTS page | 69 |
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 79 |
THE CREATION OF MODERN CHEMISTRY | 91 |
THE RISE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY | 191 |
EVOLUTION | 200 |
THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE | 222 |
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | 239 |
GENETICS AND NEODARWINISM page | 254 |
THE STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM | 276 |
THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY | 300 |
THE QUANTUM THEORY | 314 |
THE HEROIC AGE OF GEOLOGY | 107 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 122 |
THE ATOMIC THEORY | 133 |
THE WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT | 145 |
THE CONSERVATION AND DISSIPATION | 163 |
FIELD PHYSICS | 176 |
COSMOGONY | 327 |
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | 338 |
Bibliography | 352 |
Classification of the Natural Sciences | 360 |
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