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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A History of Science, Volume 2(of 5), by Henry Smith Williams This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A History of Science, Volume 2(of 5) Author: Henry Smith Williams Release Date: April, 1999 [Etext #1706] Posting Date: November 17, 2009 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF SCIENCE, V2 *** Produced by Charles Keller A HISTORY OF SCIENCE BY HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, M.D., LL.D. ASSISTED BY EDWARD H. WILLIAMS, M.D. IN FIVE VOLUMES VOLUME II. CONTENTS BOOK II CHAPTER I. SCIENCE IN THE DARK AGE CHAPTER II. MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE AMONG THE ARABIANS CHAPTER III. MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE IN THE WEST CHAPTER IV. THE NEW COSMOLOGY--COPERNICUS TO KEPLER AND GALILEO CHAPTER V. GALILEO AND THE NEW PHYSICS CHAPTER VI. TWO PSEUDO-SCIENCES--ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY CHAPTER VII. FROM PARACELSUS TO HARVEY CHAPTER VIII. MEDICINE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES CHAPTER IX. PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTISTS AND NEW INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING CHAPTER X. THE SUCCESSORS OF GALILEO IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE CHAPTER XI. NEWTON AND THE COMPOSITION OF LIGHT CHAPTER XII. NEWTON AND THE LAW OF GRAVITATION CHAPTER XIII. INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION IN THE AGE OF NEWTON CHAPTER XIV. PROGRESS IN ELECTRICITY FROM GILBERT AND VON GUERICKE TO FRANKLIN CHAPTER XV. NATURAL HISTORY TO THE TIME OF LINNAEUS APPENDIX A HISTORY OF SCIENCE BOOK II. THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN SCIENCE The studies of the present book cover the progress of science from the close of the Roman period in the fifth century A.D. to about the middle of the eighteenth century. In tracing the course of events through so long a period, a difficulty becomes prominent which everywhere besets the historian in less degree--a difficulty due to the conflict between the strictly chronological and the topical method of treatment. We must hold as closely as possible to the actual sequence of events, since, as already pointed out, one discovery leads on to another. But, on the other hand, progressive steps are taken contemporaneously in the various fields of
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