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- Gateway to the Great Books Vol. 8 of 10
Gateway to the Great Books Vol 8 of 10
Author:
Bacon
,
Tyndall
,
Eve Curie
,
Darwin
,
Fabre
,
Eiseley
,
Rachel Carson
,
Haldane
,
Huxley
,
Galton
,
Bernard
,
Pavlov
,
Wohler
,
Lyell
,
Galileo
,
Campanella
,
Faraday
,
Mendalaav
,
Helmholtz
,
Einstein
,
Infeld
,
Eddington
,
Jones
,
Boeke.
Volume 8: Natural Science — Francis BACON (1561-1626) p. 1 — "The Sphinx" from The Wisdom of the Ancients: A Series of Mythological Fables p. 2 — John TYNDALL (1820-1893) p. 5 — "Michael Faraday" from Faraday as a Discoverer p. 8 — Eve CURIE (b. 1904) p. 29 — "The Discovery of Radium" from Madame Curie p. 32 — Charles Robert DARWIN (1809-1882) p. 43 — "
...
more »
Autobiography" from Charles Darwin's Autobiography p. 47
Jean Henri FABRE (1823-1915) p. 94
"A Laboratory of the Open Fields" from The Life of the Fly p. 97
"The Sacred Beetle" from The Sacred Beetle and Others p. 105
Loren EISELEY (b. 1907) p. 120
"On Time" from The Immense Journey p. 123
Rachel L. CARSON (1907-1964) p. 130
"The Sunless Sea" from The Sea Around Us p. 132
J. B. S. HALDANE (1892-1964) p. 147
"On Being the Right Size" from Possible Worlds p. 149
Thomas Henry HUXLEY (1825-1895) p. 155
"On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals" from Man's Place in Nature and Other Anthropological Essays p. 160
"On a Piece of Chalk" p. 205
Sir Francis GALTON (1822-1911) p. 223
"The Classification of Human Ability" from Hereditary Genius p. 227
Claued BERNARD (1813-1878) p. 262
"Experimental Considerations Common to Living Things and Inorganic Bodies" from An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine p. 266
Ivan Petrovich PAVLOV (1849-1936) p. 291
"Scientific Study of the So-called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals" from Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes p. 294
Friedrich WOHLER (1800-1882) p. 310
"On the Artificial Production of Urea" p. 312
Sir Charles LYELL (1797-1875) p. 315
"Geological Evolution" from The Principles of Geology p. 319
GALILEO Galilei (1564-1642) p. 325
"The Starry Messenger" p. 330
Tommaso CAMPANELLA (1568-1639) p. 356
"Arguments for and against Galileo" from The Defense of Galileo p. 359
Michael FARADAY (1791-1867) p. 365
The Chemical History of a Candle p. 368
Dmitri MENDELEEV (1834-1907) p. 440
"The Genesis of a Law of Nature" from The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements p. 442
H. L. F. Von HELMHOLTZ (1821-1894) p. 447
"On the Conservation of Force" p. 451
Albert EINSTEIN (1879-1955) & Leopold INFELD (1898-1968) p. 485
"The Rise and Decline of Classical Physics" from The Evolution of Physics p. 490
Sir Arthur EDDINGTON (1882-1944) p. 561
"The Running-Down of the Universe" from Nature and the Physical World p. 565
Sir James JEANS (1877-1946) p. 581
"Beginnings and Endings" from The Universe Around Us p. 585
Kees BOEKE (b. 1884)p. 597
"Cosmic View" p. 600
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ISBN:
334711
Publication Date:
1/1/1963
Pages:
644
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