Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Science de William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham

Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Science: Being Extracts from the Writings of Men of Science to Illustrate the Development of Scientific Thought

William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham

Margaret Dampier-Whetham

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mar 2013

First published in 1928, as the second edition of a 1924 original, this book presents a series of extracts illustrating the development of scientific thought. The text is divided into three sections: 'Cosmogony', 'The Atomic Theory', and 'The Theory of Evolution'. Within each section the extracts run chronologically, revealing the development of the subject in the thought of succeeding ages. Illustrative figures are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of science.

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Preface; Part I. Cosmogony: 1. The book of genesis; 2. Aristotle; 3. Aristarchus and Archimedes; 4. Copernicus; 5. Galileo Gallilei; 6. Newton; 7. Laplace; 8. Foucault, Stokes, Bunsen and Kirchhoff; 9. Einstein, Minkowski, Eddington. Relativity; Part II. Atomic Theory: 10. Lucretius; 11. Alchemy the parent of chemistry; 12. Lavoisier and the rise of modern chemistry; 13. Chemistry and the atomic theory; 14. The combination of gases; 15. Atoms and molecules; 16. The periodic law; 17. Electrochemistry; 18. The ionic dicclocation theory; 19. The electric properties of gases and the discovery of particles smaller than chemical atoms; 20. Positive rays and isotopes; 21. The nature of x-rays and the discovery of atomic numbers; 22. Radio-activity and the structure of the atom; Part III. The Theory of Evolution: 23. Aristotle; 24. The dark ages: Pliny; 25. Mediaeval allegories: physiologus; 26. Hooke: an early microscopist; 27. Species: the Linnaean system of classification; 28. New theories of evolution: Lamarck; 29. Evolution in geology: Lyell; 30. Organic chemistry: Wöhler; 31. Pasteur and the question of spontaneous generation; 32. The origin of species; 33. The laws of heredity: Mendel; 34. The chromosome theory of heredity; 35. Present progress; Index.