Produced by Kevin Handy, John Hagerson, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: William Harvey] THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS JOINT EDITORS ARTHUR MEE Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge J.A. HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia VOL. XV SCIENCE WM. H. WISE & Co. _Table of Contents_ PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM HARVEY _Frontispiece_ PAGE BRAMWELL, JOHN MILNE Hypnotism: Its History, Practice and Theory 1 BUFFON, COMTE DE Natural History 12 CHAMBERS, ROBERT Vestiges of Creation 22 CUVIER, GEORGES The Surface of the Globe 33 DARWIN, CHARLES The Origin of Species 43 DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY Elements of Chemical Philosophy 64 FARADAY, MICHAEL Experimental Researches in Electricity 75 The Chemical History of a Candle 85 FOREL, AUGUSTE The Senses of Insects 95 GALILEO Dialogues on the System of the World 105 GALTON, SIR FRANCIS Essays in Eugenics 111 HAECKEL, ERNST The Evolution of Man 123 HARVEY, WILLIAM On the Motion of the Heart and Blood 136 HERSCHEL, SIR JOHN Outlines of Astronomy 146 HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON Cosmos, a Sketch of the Universe 158 HUTTON, JAMES The Theory of the Earth 170 LAMARCK Zoological Philosophy 179 LAVATER, JOHANN Physiogonomical Fragments 191 LIEBIG, JUSTUS VON Animal Chemistry 203 LYELL, SIR CHARLES The Principles of Geology 215 MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism 227 METCHNIKOFF, ELIE The Nature of Man 238 The Prolongation of Life 246 MILLER, HUGH The Old Red Sandstone 255 NEWTON, SIR ISAAC Principia 267 OWEN, SIR RICHARD Anatomy of Vertebrates 280 VIRCHOW, RUDOLF Cellular Pathology 292 * * * * * A Complete Index of THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS will be found at the end of Volume XX. _Acknowledgment_ Acknowledgment and thanks for the use of the following selections are herewith tendered to the Open Court Publishing Company, La Salle, Ill., for "Senses of Insects," by Auguste Forel; to G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, for "Prolongation of Human Life" and "Nature of Man," by Elie Metchnikoff; and to the De La More Press, London, for "Hypnotism, &c.," by Dr. Bramwell. _Science_ JOHN MILNE BRAMWELL Hypnotism: Its History, Practice and Theory