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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

4.

IV THE NEW COSMOLOGY—COPERNICUS TO KEPLER AND GALILEO

5.

V GALILEO AND THE NEW PHYSICS

6.

VI TWO PSEUDO-SCIENCES—ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY

7.

VII FROM PARACELSUS TO HARVEY

8.

VIII MEDICINE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

9.

IX PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTISTS AND NEW INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING

10.

X THE SUCCESSORS OF GALILEO IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE

11.

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

14.

XIV PROGRESS IN ELECTRICITY FROM GILBERT AND VON GUERICKE TO FRANKLIN

15.

XV NATURAL HISTORY TO THE TIME OF LINNÆUS

APPENDIX REFERENCE-LIST

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APPENDIX
REFERENCE-LIST

[For notes and bibliography to vol. II. see vol. V.]

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