A History of Science — Volume 5Williams, Henry Smith
History
A History of Science — Volume 5
Williams, Henry Smith
Science -- History
Ad clar. v. d. Schonerum de libris revolutionism eruditiss. viri et
mathemattci excellentiss. Rev. Doctoris Nicolai Copernici Torunnaei,
Canonici Warmiensis, per quemdam juvenem mathematico studio sum,
Narratio prima, Dantzic, 1540. This was the first published statement
of the doctrine of Copernicus, and was a letter published by Rheticus.
Three years afterwards Copernicus's De orbium colestium revolutionibus,
Libri VI., was published at Nuremberg (1543).
Descartes, René. See vol. ii., p. 193.
Traité de Vhomme (Cousins's edition, in 11 vols., Paris, 1824).
Galilei, Galileo. See vol. ii., p. 91.
Dialogo dei due massimi sistemi del mondo, Florence, 1632. Discorsi e
dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze, Leyden, 1638.
Gilbert, William (1540-1603). See vol. ii., p. 113.
De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure,
London, 1600. De magnete was trans. by P. Fleury Motteley, London, 1893.
Guericke, Otto von (1620-1686). See vol. ii., p. 213.
Expérimenta nova, ut vocant, Magdeburgica de vacuo spatio, Amsterdam,
1672. In the Phil. Trans, of the Royal Society of London, No. 88, for
1672.
Hales, Stephen (1677-1761). See vol. ii., p. 298.
Statical Essays, comprising Vegetable Staticks, London, 1727, and
Homostatics, London, 1733. Harvey, William. See vol. ii., p. 169.
Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis, Frankfort-on-Main,
1628. The Works of, trans, by Robert Willis, London, 1847. Hauksbeb,
Francis. See vol. ii., p. 259.
Physico-Mechanical Experiments on Various Subjects, London, 1709. This
contains descriptions of his various discoveries in electricity, many of
which are given in the Phil. Trans.
Hooee, Robert. See vol. ii., p. 215.
Micrographia, or Some Philosophical Descriptions of Some Minute Bodies,
London, 1665. An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth, London, 1674.
Microscopical Observations, London, 1780. Most of Hooke's important
discoveries were contributed as papers to the Royal Society and are
available in the Phil. Trans.
Huygens, Christian (1629-1695). See vol. ii., p. 218.
Traite de la lumière, Leyden, 1690. Complete works were published at
The Hague in 1888, under thetit le Ouvres complètes, by the Société
Hollandaise des Sciences. These books have not been translated into
English. Huygens's famous paper on the laws governing the collision of
elastic bodies appeared in the Phil. Trans, of the Royal Society for
1669.
Kepler, Johann. See vol. ii., p. 70.
Astronomia nova de motibus Stella Mortis, Leipzig, 1609, contains
Kepler's two first laws; and Harmonices mundi, 1619, contains the third
law, Phomomenon singulare, seu Mercurius in sole, Leipzig, 1609. Joannis
KepUri opera omnia, in 8 vols., Frankfort, 1858-1871.
Leeuwenhoek, Anthony van. See vol. ii., p. 179.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account