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A History of Science — Volume 2

By Henry Smith Williams

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Volume 2: The beginnings of modern science

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A HISTORY OF SCIENCE
A HISTORY OF SCIENCE
- BOOK II. THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN SCIENCE
- I. SCIENCE IN THE DARK AGE
- II. MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE AMONG THE ARABIANS
- III. MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE IN THE WEST
- IV. THE NEW COSMOLOGY—COPERNICUS TO KEPLER AND GALILEO
- V. GALILEO AND THE NEW PHYSICS
- VI. TWO PSEUDO-SCIENCES—ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY
- VII. FROM PARACELSUS TO HARVEY
  - PARACELSUS
- VIII. MEDICINE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
- IX. PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTISTS AND NEW INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING
- X. THE SUCCESSORS OF GALILEO IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE
- XI. NEWTON AND THE COMPOSITION OF LIGHT
- XII. NEWTON AND THE LAW OF GRAVITATION
- XIII. INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION IN THE AGE OF NEWTON
- XIV. PROGRESS IN ELECTRICITY FROM GILBERT AND VON GUERICKE TO FRANKLIN
- XV. NATURAL HISTORY TO THE TIME OF LINNAEUS
- APPENDIX
  - REFERENCE LIST
- CHAPTER I
  - SCIENCE IN THE DARK AGE
- CHAPTER III
  - MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE IN THE WEST
- CHAPTER IV
  - THE NEW COSMOLOGY—COPERNICUS TO KEPLER AND GALILEO
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
  - TWO PSEUDO-SCIENCES—ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY
- CHAPTER VII
  - FROM PARACELSUS TO HARVEY
- CHAPTER VIII
  - MEDICINE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
- CHAPTER IX
  - PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTISTS AND NEW INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING
- CHAPTER X
  - THE SUCCESSORS OF GALILEO IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE
- CHAPTER XI
  - NEWTON AND THE COMPOSITION OF LIGHT
- CHAPTER XII
  - NEWTON AND THE LAW OF GRAVITATION
- CHAPTER XIV
  - PROGRESS IN ELECTRICITY FROM GILBERT AND VON GUERICKE TO FRANKLIN
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