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A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science

SIR ISAAC NEWTON

CONTENTS BOOK II

A HISTORY OF SCIENCE BOOK II THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN SCIENCE

1.

I SCIENCE IN THE DARK AGE

2.

II MEDIÆVAL SCIENCE AMONG THE ARABIANS

3.

III MEDIÆVAL SCIENCE IN THE WEST

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IV THE NEW COSMOLOGY—COPERNICUS TO KEPLER AND GALILEO

JOHANN KEPLER AND THE LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION

GALILEO GALILEI

Notes

5.

V GALILEO AND THE NEW PHYSICS

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VI TWO PSEUDO-SCIENCES—ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY

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VII FROM PARACELSUS TO HARVEY

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VIII MEDICINE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

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IX PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTISTS AND NEW INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING

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X THE SUCCESSORS OF GALILEO IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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XI NEWTON AND THE COMPOSITION OF LIGHT

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XII NEWTON AND THE LAW OF GRAVITATION

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XIII INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION IN THE AGE OF NEWTON

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XIV PROGRESS IN ELECTRICITY FROM GILBERT AND VON GUERICKE TO FRANKLIN

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XV NATURAL HISTORY TO THE TIME OF LINNÆUS

APPENDIX REFERENCE-LIST

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Notes

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(p. 62). Copernicus, Über die Kreisbewegungen der Welf-körper, trans. from Dannemann's Geschichte du Naturwissenschaften, 2 vols., Leipzig, 1896.

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(p. 90). Galileo, Dialogo dei due Massimi Systemi del Mondo, trans. from Dannemann, op. cit.