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Title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

Author: Elbert Hubbard

Release Date: August 19, 2006 [EBook #19080]

Language: English

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Little
Journeys
To the Homes of Great Scientists

Elbert Hubbard

Memorial Edition

Printed and made into a Book by
The Roycrofters, who are in East
Aurora, Erie County, New York

Wm. H. Wise & Co.
New York

Copyright, 1916,
By The Roycrofters

CONTENTS

SIR ISAAC NEWTON 9

GALILEO 45

COPERNICUS 85

HUMBOLDT 121

WILLIAM HERSCHEL 163

CHARLES DARWIN 197

HAECKEL 235

LINNAEUS 263

THOMAS H. HUXLEY 303

JOHN TYNDALL 333

ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE 365

JOHN FISKE 395

[Illustration: SIR ISAAC NEWTON]

SIR ISAAC NEWTON

When you come into any fresh company, observe their humours. Suit
your own carriage thereto, by which insinuation you will make their
converse more free and open. Let your discourse be more in querys
and doubtings than peremptory assertions or disputings, it being
the designe of travelers to learne, not to teach. Besides, it will
persuade