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- Title: Pioneers of Science
- Author : Oliver Lodge
- Release Date : January 25, 2015
- Genre: History,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 871 KB
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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