Pioneers of Science

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz's proof and at his 1894 Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), Lodge demonstrated an early radio wave detector he named the "coherer". In 1898 he was awarded the "syntonic" (or tuning) patent by the United States Patent Office. Lodge was Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1920.

Preface; Part I: 1. Copernicus and the motion of the earth; 2. Tycho Brahe and the earliest observatory; 3. Kepler and the laws of planetary motion; 4. Galileo and the invention of the telescope; 5. Galileo and the inquisition; 6. Descartes and his theory of vortices; 7. Sir Isaac Newton; 8. Newton and the law of gravitation; 9. Newton's 'Principia'; Part II: 10. Roemer and Bradley and the velocity of light; 11. Lagrange and Laplace; 12. Herschel and the motion of the fixed stars; 13. The discovery of the asteroids; 14. Bessel - the distances of the stars, and the discovery of the stellar planets; 15. The discovery of Neptune; 16. Comets and meteors; 17. The tides; 18. The tides, and planetary evolution; Index.

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First published in 1893, this collection of lectures covers the landmark discoveries of astronomers from Aristotle to Kelvin.