A History of Science — Volume 5Williams, Henry Smith
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A History of Science — Volume 5
Williams, Henry Smith
Science -- History
His discoveries are mostly recorded in the Phil. Trans. of the Royal
Society, between the years 1673 and 1723--one hundred and twelve papers
in all. His discovery of bacteria is recorded in Phil. Trans, for 1683;
and that of the discovery of the capillary circulation of the blood in
Phil. Trans, for 1790.
LiNNiEus, Carolus (1707-1778). See vol. ii., p. 299.
His Systema natures was published in 1735. Tro years later (1737)
he published Genera plantarum, which is generally considered as the
starting-point of modern botany. His published works amount to more than
one hundred and eighty.
Mariotte, Edme (died 1684). See vol. ii., p. 210.
Essais de physique (four essays), Paris, 1676-1679. 250
His De la nature de l'air, containing his statement of the law
connecting the volume and pressure of a gas, is contained in the second
essay.
Newton, Sir Isaac. See vol. ii., p. 241.
Philosophies naturalis principia mathematica, completed in July of
1687. The first edition was exhausted in a few months. There are several
translations, among others one by Andrew Motte, New York, 1848.
Paracelsus. See vol. ii., p. 159.
The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus, trans, by A. E.
Waite, 2 vols., London, 1894. Pascal, Blaise. See vol. ii., p. 122.
Récit de la grande expérience de Vêquilibre de liqueurs, Paris, 1648.
Sawtree, John. See vol. ii., p. 124 ff.
Of the Philosopher's Stone, London, 1652. Swammerdam, John. See vol.
ii., p. 297.
Bibel der Natur, trans, into German, Leipzig, 1752. Sydenham, Thomas.
See vol. ii., p. 189.
His first work, Methodus curandi febres, was published in 1666. His last
work, Processus integri, appeared in 1692. His complete works, in Latin,
were published by the Sydenham Society, London, 1844, which published
also an English translation by Pr. R. G. Latham in 1848. There are
several other English translations.
Torricelli, Evanoelista. See vol. ii., p. 120.
Opera geometrica, Florence, 1644. Tycho Brahe. See vol. ii., p. 65.
De mundi aetherei recentioribus phonomenis, Prague, 1603. This has been
trans, into German by M. Bruns, Karlsruhe, 1894.
Vinci, Leonardo da. See vol. ii., p. 47.
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist, Thinker, and Man of Science, by Eugene Muntz,
2 vols., New York, 1892, is perhaps the most complete treatment of all
phases of Leonardo's work as a scientist as well as an artist. The older
French work, Essai sur les ouvrages physico-mathématiques de Léonard
de Vinci, by J. B. Venturi, Paris, 1797, is excellent. In German, H.
Grothe's Leonardo da Vinci als Ingénieur und Philosophy Berlin, 1874, is
good.
III.--MODERN COSMICAL AND TELLURIC SCIENCES
Agassiz, L. See vol. iii., p. 147.
Etudes sur les glaciers, Neuchâtel, 1840. Arago, François J. D. See vol.
Hi., p. 67.
Ouvres (complete), if vols., Paris, 1854-1862. Arago's Meteorological
Essays, trans, into English, London, 1855. This has an introduction by
Humboldt.
Boscovich, Roger Joseph. See vol. iii., p. 293.
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