NEWTON AND THE COMPOSITION OF LIGHT Galileo, that giant in physical science of the early seventeenth century, died in 1642. On Christmas day of the same year there was born in England another intellectual giant who was destined to Citeste tot ...
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MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE IN THE WEST
MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE IN THE WEST We have previously referred to the influence of the Byzantine civilization in transmitting the learning of antiquity across the abysm of the dark age. It must be admitted, however, that the importance Citeste tot ...
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MARIOTTE AND VON GUERICKE
MARIOTTE AND VON GUERICKE Working contemporaneously with Boyle, and a man whose name is usually associated with his as the propounder of the law of density of gases, was Edme Mariotte (died 1684), a native of Burgundy. Mariotte de Citeste tot ...
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PARACELSUS
PARACELSUS In the year 1526 there appeared a new lecturer on the platform at the University at Basel--a small, beardless, effeminate-looking person--who had already inflamed all Christendom with his peculiar philosophy, his revol Citeste tot ...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Watson s writings now carried the field of active discovery across the Atlantic, and for the first time an American scientist appeared--a scientist who not only rivalled, but excelled, his European contemporari Citeste tot ...
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ARABIAN HOSPITALS
ARABIAN HOSPITALS To early Christians belong the credit of having established the first charitable institutions for caring for the sick; but their efforts were soon eclipsed by both Eastern and Western Mohammedans. As early as th Citeste tot ...
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MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE AMONG THE ARABIANS
MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE AMONG THE ARABIANS The successors of Mohammed showed themselves curiously receptive of the ideas of the western people whom they conquered. They came in contact with the Greeks in western Asia and in Egypt, and, as Citeste tot ...
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ROBERT HOOKE
ROBERT HOOKE A slender, crooked, shrivelled-limbed, cantankerous little man, with dishevelled hair and haggard countenance, bad-tempered and irritable, penurious and dishonest, at least in his claims for priority in discoveries-- Citeste tot ...
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
LEONARDO DA VINCI The relative infertility of Bacon s thought is shown by the fact that he founded no school and left no trace of discipleship. The entire century after his death shows no single European name that need claim the Citeste tot ...
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THE GREAT ANATOMISTS
THE GREAT ANATOMISTS About the beginning of the sixteenth century, while Paracelsus was scoffing at the study of anatomy as useless, and using his influence against it, there had already come upon the scene the first of the great Citeste tot ...
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SCIENCE IN THE DARK AGE
SCIENCE IN THE DARK AGE An obvious distinction between the classical and mediaeval epochs may be found in the fact that the former produced, whereas the latter failed to produce, a few great thinkers in each generation who were i Citeste tot ...
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THOMAS SYDENHAM
THOMAS SYDENHAM But while the Continent was struggling with these illusive 'systems,' and dabbling in mystic theories that were to scarcely outlive the men who conceived them, there appeared in England--the 'l Citeste tot ...
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THE NEW COSMOLOGY--COPERNICUS TO KEPLER AND GALILEO
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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES At the present time, when the elements of time and distance are practically eliminated in the propagation of news, and when cheap printing has minimized the difficulties of publishing scientific discoveries, Citeste tot ...
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GALILEO GALILEI
GALILEO GALILEI While Kepler was solving these riddles of planetary motion, there was an even more famous man in Italy whose championship of the Copernican doctrine was destined to give the greatest possible publicity to the new Citeste tot ...
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TORRICELLI
TORRICELLI In the closing years of his life Galileo took into his family, as his adopted disciple in science, a young man, Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647), who proved himself, during his short lifetime, to be a worthy follower Citeste tot ...
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TWO PSEUDO-SCIENCES--ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY
TWO PSEUDO-SCIENCES--ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY In recent chapters we have seen science come forward with tremendous strides. A new era is obviously at hand. But we shall misconceive the spirit of the times if we fail to understand that Citeste tot ...
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STEVINUS AND THE LAW OF EQUILIBRIUM
STEVINUS AND THE LAW OF EQUILIBRIUM It appears, then, that the mechanical studies of Galileo, taken as a whole, were nothing less than revolutionary. They constituted the first great advance upon the dynamic studies of Archimedes, Citeste tot ...
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WILLIAM GILBERT AND THE STUDY OF MAGNETISM
WILLIAM GILBERT AND THE STUDY OF MAGNETISM It will be observed that the studies of Galileo and Stevinus were chiefly concerned with the force of gravitation. Meanwhile, there was an English philosopher of corresponding genius, whose Citeste tot ...
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MEDICINE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
MEDICINE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES Of the half-dozen surgeons who were prominent in the sixteenth century, Ambroise Pare (1517-1590), called the father of French surgery, is perhaps the most widely known. He rose fro Citeste tot ...
