Pioneers of Science

Pioneers of Science

Oliver Lodge, british physicist and writer (1851-1940)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- PART I. FROM DUSK TO DAYLIGHT

-04- LECTURE I. COPERNICUS AND THE MOTION OF THE EARTH

-05- LECTURE II. TYCHO BRAHÉ AND THE EARLIEST OBSERVATORY

-06- LECTURE III. KEPLER AND THE LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION

-07- LECTURE IV. GALILEO AND THE INVENTION OF THE TELESCOPE

-08- LECTURE V. GALILEO AND THE INQUISITION

-09- LECTURE VI. DESCARTES AND HIS THEORY OF VORTICES

-10- LECTURE VII. SIR ISAAC NEWTON

-11- LECTURE VIII. NEWTON AND THE LAW OF GRAVITATION

-12- LECTURE IX. NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA

-13- PART II. A COUPLE OF CENTURIES' PROGRESS

-14- LECTURE X. ROEMER AND BRADLEY AND THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT

-15- LECTURE XI. LAGRANGE AND LAPLACE

-16- LECTURE XII. HERSCHEL AND THE MOTION OF THE FIXED STARS

-17- LECTURE XIII. THE DISCOVERY OF THE ASTEROIDS

-18- LECTURE XIV. BESSEL

-19- LECTURE XV. THE DISCOVERY OF NEPTUNE

-20- LECTURE XVI. COMETS AND METEORS

-21- LECTURE XVII. THE TIDES

-22- LECTURE XVIII. THE TIDES, AND PLANETARY EVOLUTION

-23- FOOTNOTES