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ILLUSTRATIONS
SIR ISAAC NEWTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
DIAGRAM TO ILLUSTRATE ALHAZEN'S MEASUREMENT OF THE HEIGHT OF THE ATMOSPHERE . . . . . . Facing p. 20
ROGER BACON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS . . . . . . . . . . . 54
TYCHO BRAHE'S QUADRANT . . . . . . . . . . 68
JOHANN KEPLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
KEPLER'S MECHANISM TO ILLUSTRATE HIS (INCORRECT) EARLY THEORY AS TO THE ORBITS OF THE PLANETARY BODIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
GALILEO GALILEI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
FRONTISPIECE OF GALILEO'S "SYSTEMA COSMICUM'' . . 82
GALILEO BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL . . . . . . . . . 90
BLAISE PASCAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
WILLIAM HARVEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 170
FRANCIS BACON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
RENÉ DESCARTES . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNITZ . . . . . . . . 196
VIEW IN THE LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY . . . . 206
VON GUERICKE'S AIR-PUMP . . . . . . . . . . 212
REPRODUCTION OF A PLATE IN HOOKE'S "MICROSCOPICAL
OBSERVATIONS'' . . . . . . . . . . 216ROBERT HOOKE'S MICROSCOPE . . . . . . . . . . 218
HUYGENS'S CLOCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facing p. 222
DIAGRAM TO ILLUSTRATE NEWTON'S LAW OF GRAVITATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
STEPHEN HALES'S EXPERIMENT TO DETERMINE THE PRESSURE
OF THE FLOW OF SAP . . . . . . . . . . 298CAROLUS LINNÆUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
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