A short history of science / by W.T. Sedgwick and H.W. Tyler.

  • William Thompson Sedgwick
Date:
1917
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Credit: A short history of science / by W.T. Sedgwick and H.W. Tyler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER XVI PAGE Some Advances in Physical Science in the Nineteenth Cen¬ tury. Energy and the Conservation of Energy . . 348 Modern Physics — Heat, Thermometry: Carnot, Rumford — Light; Wave Theory, Velocity: Young, Fresnel — The Spec¬ troscope and Spectrum Analysis — Electricity and Magnetism: Faraday, Green, Ampere, Maxwell — Electromagnetic Theory of Light — Kinetic Theory of Gases: Clausius — The Concep¬ tion of Energy — Dissipation of Energy— Modern Chemistry — Chemical Laboratories: Liebig — Quantitative Relations; Atoms, Molecules, Valence — Synthesis of Organic Substances — A Periodic Law among the Elements — Chemical Structure — Physical Chemistry; Electrolytic and Thermodynamic De¬ velopments of Chemistry. CHAPTER XVII Some Advances in Natural Science in the Nineteenth Cen¬ tury. Cosmogony and Evolution.366 Influence of Eighteenth Century Revolutions — The Scientific Revolution — Effects of the Rapid Increase of Knowledge — Gradual Appreciation of the Permanence and Scope of Natural Law — Natural Theology and an Age of Reason — Natural Phi¬ losophy and Natural History; Differentiation and Hybridizing of the Sciences — Progress in Zoology — Progress in Botany — Progress in Microscopy; the Achromatic Objective—’Embry¬ ology — Progress in Physiology : Johannes Muller; Claude Ber¬ nard — Pathology before Pasteur — The Germ Theory of Fermentation, Putrefaction and Disease : Pasteur — Antiseptic and Aseptic Surgery : Lister — Rise of Bacteriology and Para¬ sitology —■ Biogenesis versus Spontaneous Generation — Prog¬ ress of Geological Science — Glaciers and Glacial Theories — Rise of Palaeontology — Ancient and Modern Theories of Cos¬ mogony — Relationship of the Heavens and the Earth — The Scale of Life and the Phases of Life — General Resemblance of Man to the Lower Animals—'Anatomical and Microscopical Similarity of Animals and Plants; Organs, Tissues, Cells and Protoplasms—fundamental Unity of Nature; Organic versus Inorganic World — Treviranus’ Biology and Lamarck’s Zoologi¬ cal Philosophy — Voyages and Explorations of Naturalists — Darwin’s Origin of Species — His Descent of Man — Decline of the Theory of Special Creation — Influence of an Age of Invention and Industry — Science in the Dawn of the Twen¬ tieth Century.
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