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How to Use the Popular Science Library; History of Science; General Index
Garrett Putman Serviss and Arthur Selwyn-Brown
The whole story of human discovery can be told as one long adventure. Garrett Serviss surveys the history of science from primitive man and early civilizations through Babylon and Egypt and onward. A sweeping general index and narrative that ties the sciences together. For the reader who wants the big picture of how knowledge grew. Trace the march of science across the ages.
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27 chapters
- 1PREFACE
- 2CONTENTS
- 3LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4HOW TO USE THE POPULAR SCIENCE LIBRARY
- 51—Things on the Earth—Explained by
- 62—Things Above the Earth—Explained by
- 73—Things Within the Earth—Explained by
- 8CHAPTER I HISTORY OF SCIENCE
- 9CHAPTER II PRIMITIVE MAN AND EARLY CIVILIZATIONS
- 10CHAPTER III PRE-BABYLONIAN SCIENCE
- 11CHAPTER IV EGYPTIAN SCIENCE
- 12CHAPTER V FOUNDING OF SYSTEMATIC SCIENCE IN GREECE
- 13CHAPTER VI GOLDEN AGE OF GREEK SCIENCES
- 14CHAPTER VII THE ROMAN AND MIDDLE AGES
- 15CHAPTER VIII SCIENCE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- 16CHAPTER IX PRELUDE TO MODERN SCIENCE—THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- 17CHAPTER X PHYSICAL SCIENCES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- 18CHAPTER XI THE NATURAL SCIENCES
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