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Nature, Gardens & Animals
A History of Science — Volume 3
Henry Smith Williams and Edward Huntington Williams
305 pages~6 hr 4 min read15 chapters$4.99
The third volume of a grand story follows science into the modern age. Henry Smith Williams tracks the successors of Newton in astronomy, the birth of paleontology, and the rise of modern geology, showing how each field remade our picture of the world. Readable history for the scientifically curious. The century when the physical sciences came of age.
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Inside this book
15 chapters
- 1A HISTORY OF SCIENCE
- 2CONTENTS
- 3A HISTORY OF SCIENCE
- 4BOOK III. MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
- 5I. THE SUCCESSORS OF NEWTON IN ASTRONOMY
- 6II. THE PROGRESS OF MODERN ASTRONOMY
- 7III. THE NEW SCIENCE OF PALEONTOLOGY
- 8IV. THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN GEOLOGY
- 9V. THE NEW SCIENCE OF METEOROLOGY
- 10VI. MODERN THEORIES OF HEAT AND LIGHT
- 11VII. THE MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
- 12GALVANI AND VOLTA
- 13VIII. THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
- 14IX. THE ETHER AND PONDERABLE MATTER
- 15APPENDIX
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