The major achievements of science: Selections from the literature, Volume 2CUP Archive, 1960 - 195 pagina's |
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... scientific method . Newton's concepts of mass and force . Law of gravitation and application to the motion of the moon . Life of Newton . Principia . Influence of Newton's work . Chapter 4 THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD Galen . Vesalius ...
... scientific method . Newton's concepts of mass and force . Law of gravitation and application to the motion of the moon . Life of Newton . Principia . Influence of Newton's work . Chapter 4 THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD Galen . Vesalius ...
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... scientific revolution . Gilbert's work as an example of the fusion of the traditions of the scholar and of the craftsman . Bacon . Descartes . The scientific societies . The influence of science on religion . Latitudinarianism and deism ...
... scientific revolution . Gilbert's work as an example of the fusion of the traditions of the scholar and of the craftsman . Bacon . Descartes . The scientific societies . The influence of science on religion . Latitudinarianism and deism ...
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... scientific generalisations and prestige of science . Comte . The clash between science and religion . Tyndall . Huxley and the Meta- physical Society . Haeckel . Evolution . Spencer . Evolutionary ethics . The development of the ...
... scientific generalisations and prestige of science . Comte . The clash between science and religion . Tyndall . Huxley and the Meta- physical Society . Haeckel . Evolution . Spencer . Evolutionary ethics . The development of the ...
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Inhoudsopgave
Chapter | 3 |
16 | 59 |
THE EARLY MICROSCOPISTS page | 69 |
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 79 |
THE CREATION OF MODERN CHEMISTRY | 91 |
THE HEROIC AGE OF GEOLOGY | 107 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 122 |
THE ATOMIC THEORY | 133 |
45 | 217 |
THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE | 222 |
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | 239 |
GENETICS AND NEODARWINISM page | 254 |
THE STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM | 276 |
57 | 284 |
THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY | 300 |
THE QUANTUM THEORY | 314 |
THE WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT | 145 |
32 | 157 |
THE CONSERVATION AND DISSIPATION | 163 |
FIELD PHYSICS | 176 |
THE RISE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY | 191 |
EVOLUTION | 200 |
COSMOGONY | 327 |
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | 338 |
Bibliography | 352 |
Classification of the Natural Sciences | 360 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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