The major achievements of science: Selections from the literature, Volume 2CUP Archive, 1960 - 195 pagina's |
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... heat . Rumford's experiments . Joule's experiments . Carnot on the theory of the steam engine . Kelvin and Clausius . Mayer . Maxwell and statistical mechanics . Chance and the laws of nature . Einstein's combination of the conservation ...
... heat . Rumford's experiments . Joule's experiments . Carnot on the theory of the steam engine . Kelvin and Clausius . Mayer . Maxwell and statistical mechanics . Chance and the laws of nature . Einstein's combination of the conservation ...
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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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æther animals Aristotle arteries astronomical atomic theory atomic weight became blood body calx Cambridge cathode rays caused Cavendish Cavendish laboratory cells CHAPTER chemical chemistry chromosomes colour concept Copernicus Dalton Darwin Descartes developed diffraction discovered discovery disease distance earth Einstein electric electron elements energy evolution experimental experiments explained fact Faraday force fossils fundamental Galileo gene germ German gravitational heat hence Huxley hydrogen ideas investigation J. J. Thomson Joule known laboratory Lavoisier light London mass mathematical matter Maxwell mechanical mercury method microscope mind modern molecules motion natural selection nebulae Newton nineteenth century observation organic oxygen particles Pasteur phenomena philosophy phlogiston phlogiston theory physical physicist plants PLATE principle put forward quantum radiation radioactive realised result Robert Hooke rocks Royal Society Rutherford scientific space species sphere stars theory of relativity Thomson thorium tion tube universe velocity ventricle wave theory wrote